India not responsible for delay in visa agreement: Sharat Sabharwal

Indian High Commissioner says delay will affect not just business community but also common people.


Web Desk June 05, 2012

KARACHI: After visa regime talks failed to finalise agreements in May, the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Sharat Sabharwal said that delays in agreements over the regime were not from the Indian side, Express News reported on Tuesday.

Speaking at a dinner gathering hosted for him by the India Pakistan Chamber of Commerce in Karachi, he said that the delay in visa agreement would not just affect the business community but common people as well.

He further acknowledged that trading with Pakistan and vice versa would reduce trust deficit between the two countries.

“Trade leads to people-to-people interaction and results in better relations,” he said.

He also said that custom clearance and laboratory testing are two main hurdles for businessmen in both the countries.

Sabharwal added that India is working on exporting electricity and petroleum products to Pakistan.

COMMENTS (5)

mayur | 11 years ago | Reply

thas how Pakistan says "Damn with the masses and their wants its all about us n the ruckus"lool people to people contact cannot be done over political pompous which in the case of our fella@ lyan" has much to loose",it proves again the cocky behaviour of the Pakistani establishment whos lost everything and delebrate to loose more hopefully ! guess its we the Indians who benefit from this as we wont want to wake up to kasabs and hafeez sayed showing up at our door step with a "visit Visa"

Mirza | 11 years ago | Reply The survival of the deep state depends upon the hatred toward each other. Why would they allow any govt to build bridges and not walls? Remember when N. Sharif tried to do the same, Generals started Kargil? Once there is friendship and peaceful coexistence there would be no two nation theory (which has been shattered by losing E. Pakistan) and no need for such a huge army. When the walls would be down people could see the right from the wrong.
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