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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Pakistani curry, Indian ingredients
Nitin Pai of The Acorn applauds the Pakistan government's decision to lift import duties on Indian meat, livestock, onions, garlic and tomatoes. He writes:
Absolutely. And this is precisely what I was getting at here.
What is good for ingredients of curry is just as good for the rest of the economy as well: bilateral trade must not be held hostage to Pakistan’s Kashmir dogma. People-to-people contacts, that oft-repeated mantra of Indian foreign policy, is nothing more than a warm fuzzy feeling if it does not imply ringing cash registers on either side of the border.
Absolutely. And this is precisely what I was getting at here.
