Federal Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir on Friday said that trade restrictions against India for its repeated ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC) would be a “counterproductive retaliatory measure”.

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“The government is ready to do so but in the given situation it is not in Pakistan’s national interest”, the minister told Senate while responding to a call attention notice by Senator Saleem Mandviwalla.

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Senator Mandviwalla contended that despite repeated ceasefire violations on the LoC by Indian troops, the government has been reluctant to use trade as a counterbalancing measure against Indian actions.