KARACHI: The Government of Bharat, according to the text of the trade Agreement released … on Tuesday [April 25], will supply 20,000 tons of jute manufactures to Pakistan and in return will receive 40,00,000 maunds of raw jute from Pakistan. Under the Agreement, the Government of Pakistan have agreed to supply 1,50,000 tons of wheat to Bharat at a price to be settled between the two Governments… . Besides jute manufactures, Bharat has also undertaken to supply Pakistan with cotton textiles, cotton yarn, mustard oil, tobacco, steel sheets, wheels, tyres and axles, timber, cement, and woollen manufactures… .

[Meanwhile, according to a Dawn staff correspondent,] the Kashmir question “may be taken up” at the Karachi meeting of the Prime Ministers of Pakistan and Bharat, Foreign Minister, Chaudhri Mohammad Zafrullah Khan told a Press conference… . [He] said that Kashmir was … holding up the settlement of other issues… .

He said there was “some effort” on the part of Pakistan to discuss the question during the Liaquat-Nehru talks at Delhi, but it did not progress as the two Prime Ministers were busy settling the minorities problem.

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2025