INDIA-PAKISTAN TRADE TALKS
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NEW DELHI, Jan. 27. India’s Foreign Minister, Swaran Singh, will lead a Government delegation to Pakistan next month.
The delegates’ main aim will be to get trade between the two countries—recently at war —back to normal. This was envisaged by the Tashkent agreement, signed on January 10 by the late Mr Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan, of Pakistan.
The precise date of the visit has not yet been fixed. The Foreign Minister will be accompanied by the Commerce Minister, Manubhai Shah and the Minister for Shipping and Civil Aviation, D. Sanjiva Reddy. Trade between India and
Pakistan was brought to a stand-still by the Kashmir conflict. The Indian Minister was the first to visit Pakistan since the release of ships and cargoes' held in Indian and Pakistani ports at the outbreak of the conflict. The two countries have already begun a phased withdrawal of their troops to positions they occupied before the fighting. A time-table for the release of some 1100 prisoners of war held in India and Pakistan is already understood to have been drawn up.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30971, 29 January 1966, Page 15
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