Pakistan has said it
would grant India the status of Non-Discriminatory Market Access (NDMA) to
facilitate enhanced bilateral trade. According to media reports, Pakistan
Commerce Minister Khurram Dastigir Khan clarified that it was not Most Favoured
Nation status but non-discriminatory and parallel market access that is being
granted to India.
He was addressing the media at Islamabad. Khan also
described Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to India this week as positive
and said Sharif did not indulge in reactionary diplomacy. India had already
granted MFN status to Pakistan in 1996. Various sections in Pakistan,
especially the extreme right wing, had objected to the term "Most
Favoured" being given to India.
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