Times of Islamabad

Pakistan gives yet another deadly blow to India

Pakistan gives yet another deadly blow to India

*ISLAMABAD: **Pakistan gives yet another deadly blow to India over transittrade with Afghanistan.*

*Pakistan has ruled out possibility of linking access to Afghanistan viaWagah border for transportation of Indian goods, arguing the transit tradeis not trilateral issue in anyway.*

“We have asked Afghanistan for not linking trade access through Wagahborder and they agreed to it because the transit trade was bilateral issueand it was not trilateral thing to bring any other into it,” PrimeMinister’s Adviser to Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood said while addressing anews conference here on Wednesday.

He also said he asked Prime Minister Imran Khan for stopping investigationsof NAB against top businessmen, saying it was not good thing and there isneed to stop it.

When asked it was done last time under Musharraf regime under chairmanshipof then NAB chief Gen (retd) Amjad and now again by NAB, the Adviser to PMsaid he does not want to say anything more on this issue.

On abolishing of zero rating regime for five export oriented sectorsthrough withdrawal of SRO 1125 in the budget for 2019-20, he said he wantedto make it crystal clear that the government would not back out fromregistration of taxpayers.