Top 10 News Today: Why is Pakistan Suddenly Keen to Improve Trade Relations With India?

The Pakistani foreign minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar, recently said that his country is seriously considering improvement of trade ties with India as per top 10 news today in Hindi. He further referred to the roundabout route via UAE through which Indian products enter Pakistan, making them quite expensive. Of course everyone understands that Pakistan’s economy will get boosted if it resumes complete trade ties with India but then such trade ties can resume only when both sides are willing.

According to the latest India news in Hindi, the Indian foreign minister while responding to a specific question by a reporter about the Pakistani foreign minister’s statement said that Pakistan must meet certain conditions before trade ties can resume.

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Clearly, the Indian foreign minister, S Jaishankar was referring to the support for cross border terrorism in India that Pakistan was involved in. He said that normal trade ties cannot go hand in hand with support for terrorism.

Now, that’s the reality of the overall status of the relationship between the two countries for the past few years and Pakistan is well aware of it. Yet it made this statement just before the Indian elections.

Can Pakistan compromise its stated position on issues with India?

The question that arises from the Pakistani foreign minister’s statement about improving trade ties with India is whether Pakistan is in a position to meet India’s conditions in this regard.

Readers of the top 10 news today in Hindi are interested in knowing if Pakistan can stop supporting terrorist infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir, without which India will not be interested.

Most observers and analysts covering India-Pakistan relations are of the view that the objective of the Pakistani foreign minister’s statement is not what he said but something else.

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The Pakistani rulers know very well that they cannot back away from the stand they have taken against India as it would be opposed very strongly by the masses of their country.

Hence, most Indian observers feel that this was just a ploy by Pakistan to check India’s response although some observers have come up with more interesting possibilities of Pakistan’s real intentions.

Did Pakistan make the statement at the behest of other powers?

According to the opinion of geopolitical observers and analysts in some of the top 10 news today in Hindi and other media outlets, it is quite likely that Pakistan did so at the behest of a major power.

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Pakistan has always been a stooge of one or other big power. Before it was created by the British, the founders of Pakistan had undermined the Indian freedom struggle in collaboration with the British.

Post 1947 after its creation, Pakistan became a vassal of the United States (US) since the British had become quite insignificant by then. After the India-China war in 1962 Pakistan saw a great advantage in latching on to China’s coattails as it gave it additional leverage against India.

The intriguing statement of the Pakistan foreign minister about his country’s keenness to resume trade ties with India must have been a Chinese idea just before the forthcoming Brazil Russia India China South Africa (BRICS) summit in Moscow.

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China is putting its weight behind getting Pakistan included in the BRICS but since India is against the idea, this could have been a ploy to show Pakistan in good light to the rest of the BRICS members. Both China and Pakistan know about the Indian position on this issue but they want to start a narrative that shows Pakistan being deprived of a place in a growing multilateral body due to opposition from India. One of the conditions for a new member to be admitted into the BRICS is that it should have normal relations with all the other members of the group. Although China’s relations with India are also strained but trade relations between the two nations are still worth over $100 billion. If that fa?ade of normality can be achieved between India and Pakistan with some trade, then Pakistan’s entry into the group will become easier.

AUTHOR: Dev Kumar is an independent geo-political observer, commentator and blogger who tries to look at international issues in relation to India and present a different dimension that has hardly been covered by mainstream experts.