The Minister for Commerce and Textile Pervaiz Malik will participate in the informal World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting to be held in New Delhi on March 19-20.
Pervaiz Malik will undertake the visit to New Delhi to participate in the event on the invitation of the Indian government.
The Pakistani Commerce will also hold a meeting with his Indian Counterpart Suresh Prabhu in New Delhi.
Besides Pervaiz Malik, Ministers from almost 40 other Countries will also take part in the two-day WTO Ministerial Meeting in the Indian Capital.
The Indian invitation to Pervaiz Malik and his eventual acceptance comes when the two South Asian neighbors have once again been going through strained bilateral ties for a few years now.
The arrest of Indian Spy Kulbhushan Jadhav in Pakistan on espionage charges in March 2016 and the constant allegations into ceasefire violations leveled by both the Countries against each other have again brought them to the level of issuing threats of waging a war.
Except the release of each other’s fishermen and the secret talks held between their national security advisers in December 2017, the relations between Pakistan and India haven’t yet hinted moving towards normalization.
Now recently, Islamabad accused New Delhi of conspiring to isolate Pakistan internationally and pushed the United States to table a motion at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting held in Paris last week to place Pakistan in FATF’s grey list for allegedly financing terrorists.
