India,Pakistan should have different future from past: Indian HC
LAHORE, (MILLAT ONLINE):Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria
on Friday said that India and Pakistan should have future
different from the past and must not carry the burden
of history.
“Mutual relations should be built on the basis of trade
and economy and must be away from violence and war. We should
not talk about negative and positive lists rather we should
work on the windows of opportunities,” he added.
He was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
LCCI President Malik Tahir Javaid, Senior Vice President
Khawaja Khawar Rashid, Vice President Zeshan Khalil and Executive
Committee Members also spoke.
The Indian high commissioner said that there was no better
way of improving bilateral relations than mutually beneficial
economic ties. He added that both Pakistan and India needed
to take more steps to remove non-tariff barriers that were a
major impediment to bilateral trade relations.
He said that removal of non-tariff barriers,
liberalization of visa and normalization of mutual relation could
bring the two-way trade to the height of $ 30 billion.
The two-third population of India was below the age of 35 and
same was in Pakistan as 65% people of Pakistan were under
the age of 35, he said and added, both the countries had a lot of
potential to cater to each other.
“The Chambers of Commerce & Industry of both countries are
the most important lobby as not only they can play an instrumental
role in strengthening mutual trade and economic ties but they
can also influence the policy makers”, the Indian high commissioner
said.
LCCI President Malik Tahir Javaid said: “We have been
witnessing these cycles time and again that first there is a
trust deficit and some joint efforts are made for trust building
then a bad incident happens and we end up yet again at trust
deficit.
One such incident must not halt the process of
relation building.” He added that both countries should give
the peace another chance to prevail in the region for the
youth and coming generations.
LCCI Senior Vice President Khawaja Khawar Rashid and Vice
President Zeshan Khalil also called for joint efforts for trade normalization and for removing of non-trade barriers.
They suggested establishment of a common area at border
where businessmen of the both countries could meet each other
for business deals.