No resumption of trade with India: Pakistan Foreign Office

The Foreign Office (FO) in Islamabad confirmed on Friday that no talks about the resumption of trade between India and Pakistan are taking place, citing India’s illegal steps taken in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) in 2019.

FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, addressing a weekly press briefing, recalled that the decision to suspend trade with India was taken after 2019, saying, “This situation remains intact.”

She also condemned the killing of four Kashmiri youths by Indian occupation forces in the Doda district, emphasising that the brutal act was yet another example of India’s oppression of the Kashmiri people.

The FO spokesperson also spoke on Afghan border issues, condemned the recent clash of both forces on August 12 and called on Afghanistan to avoid unprovoked acts.