· India pakistan talks on trade front has made significant progress
o Pakistan has agreed to shift over form positive to negative list
o Pakistan is willing to give India MFN status
o They have set a trade target of 6 bn $ by 2014(currently 2.7 bn $ trade in 2010-11)
o Talks underway to liberalise visa norms for businessmen
o Addressing inssue of non trabe barriers
Beyond trade
· Talks on other issues seem to heading nowhere
· Uncertainty within the pakistan politics has lead to slowdown in talks
· Home secretary and foreign min talks have been delayed
· Uncertainty in afghanistan has kept the tensions on border running high
· Within India , central government is busy fighting allegations of corruption
In afghanistan
· Both India and pakistan are competing to gain influence in afghanistan
· Pakistan fears the indian government offer of training the afghan army
o Pakistan fears afghan army will develop an indian mindset
· India fears that pakistan will provide space for taliban , haqqanis to be part of afghan political setup
Jammu and kashmir
· India pakistan are yet to decide on even starting point of talks
· India wants to have talks on basis of 4 point formula agreed to through back channel talks during mushraff era
o The formula called for self governance, demilitarisation, making borders irrelevant and jt management of kashmir
· Equally India has failed to act on recommendations of JK interlocutors to meet the expectations of people in valley.
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