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Pakistani delegation to visit Kashmir to discuss trade
By Binoo Joshi, IANS,
Mar 3, 2007 - 11:54:46 AM
Jammu, March 3 - A business delegation from Pakistan-administered Kashmir will visit Jammu and Kashmir March 16 to discuss the possibilities of mutual trade - a sign of the increasing people-to-people contact between the divided parts of Kashmir.
The 26-member delegation of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, led by its president Zulfiqar Abbasi, will be on a three-day visit here. The group were invited by the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry -.
Ram Sahai, chairman of JCCI, said their trip would be a 'big event in the ongoing process of people-to-people contact between the two countries and especially the people of Jammu and Kashmir'.
Sahai told IANS: 'The delegation will discuss the prospects of mutual trade, transactions and communication between the two parts of the state to boost the economy.'
This will pave the way for the start of trade between the two sides - a move that the governments of India and Pakistan have already agreed to. Two routes across the Line of Control - have been identified - the Srinagar-Muzzaffarabad road and the Poonch-Rawlakote road.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri had discussed the possibility of opening these routes for trade during his recent visit to India.
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said he would extend all support to boost trade between the two sides.
'Ties between the two countries are improving. The visit of the delegation from Pakistan administered Kashmir would be a major milestone in our quest for mutual trade and building stakes in our economy.'
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