SRINAGAR, Jan. 17 -- Attention to border economies, in the absence of India Pakistan trade, says a new book.
16 January 2020: Since February 2019, India-Pakistan relations have been sliding downhill. Escalating tensions between India and Pakistan led their governments to each retaliate through successive unilateral decisions that caused losses in both countries. As in the past, traders in both countries were affected, albeit much more severely this time around.
After the militant attack in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir in February 2019, the Indian government decided to withdraw the status of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) for trade granted to Pakistan since 1996. Subsequently, it increased customs duty on all goods imported from P...