Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status is given to one country by another and enforced by the World Trade Organization (WTO). In international economic relations and international politics, MFN level of treatment is given by one state to another in international trade and the country recipient of such ...

MULTAN - Chairman Tehreek Hurriyat Conference Occupied Kashmir Syed Ali Geelani has said that grant of Most Favoured Nation status to India by Pakistan has stunned the Kashmiris.Addressing the participants of a Kashmir Day gathering organised by Jamaatud Dawa on the phone here at Ghanta Ghar Chowk ...

Islamabad  - Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Thursday said that Pakistan had some reservations over granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, he said: "Violation of ceasefire at Line of Control (LoC) after 10 years is unfortunate, we have ...

Secretary Foreign Affairs Jalil Abbas Jilani has said that Pakistan has reservations about granting the most favored nation status to IndiaTalking to newsmen here in Islamabad‚ he said ministerial talks on the issue will be held between the two countries shortly.He said the federal cabinet ...

LAHORE – PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has said Dr Qadri’s long marchers will come to know what a march is when they come out of their homes.Responding to media men’s queries about the long march of Dr Tahirul Qadri at a conference here Tuesday, Nawaz Sharif said he would not be ...

ISLAMABAD - The IWCCI on Sunday lauded the decision of the federal cabinet to implement the grant of MFN status to India which will help normalise bilateral relations.Failure to meet the December 31 deadline for MFN status to India indicates extra care being observed by Pakistan government and that ...

The federal cabinet in its meeting, with Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in the chair on Thursday, decided to implement the grant of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India immediately, and directed the Commerce Ministry to act accordingly. That showed that the earlier delay to consult ...

The Pakistan government’s delay in finalising giving India the Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) status is an indication of long overdue cold feet. MFN status had been promised to India by the end of the current year. Senior Minister Makhdum Amin Fahim, who holds the commerce portfolio, said this on ...

KARACHI – Jamaat-e-Islami Azad Jammu and Kashmir chief Abdur Rasheed Turrabi on Sunday called on all political parties to put the Kashmir issue at the top of their election manifestoes.Addressing a press conference at Idara-e-Noor Haq, Turrabi said the award of most-favoured nation to India ...

Reportedly, the grant of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India, agreed upon in principle, is likely to be delayed by a week or so; instead of December 31 it would be some time in the first week of January 2013 when it would come into force. The reason: the federal cabinet that has to ...

ISLAMABAD - With little chances of Federal Cabinet meeting next week, the matter of granting most favoured nation (MFN) status to India, otherwise finalised in principle, would defer for a week or so when the federal cabinet would meet in the first or second week of January 2013, it was learnt on ...

The government has planned to grant the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India by the end of 2012. The farmers believe that such a basic shift in trade policy would require a significant amount of research and confidence of important stakeholders before working out specific modalities of ...

LAHORE - Relations between India and Pakistan could not be improved until the Kashmir and water issues were resolved. “Though Pakistani entrepreneurs are ready to compete with Indian products and look forward to gaining access to a very large Indian market but the government would have to ...

DASKA - The Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India remain unacceptable till both nuclear neighbours reached a solution to their prolonged issues including - human rights violation in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, water dispute and Indian intervention in Balochistan. These comments were made by ...

FAISALABAD  – Chairman Pakistan Textile Exporters Association, Rana Arif Tauseef has hailed the government’s decision of granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India.He said the government should provide equal opportunities to local industrialists so that they could play ...

ISLAMABAD  - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief and Chairman Kashmir Committee Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that Kashmiri leaders have reservations over granting MFN (Most-Favoured Nation) status to India by Pakistan. Talking to media on Saturday, Fazl said that support for right to ...

KHANEWAL: - The Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Difa-e Pakistan Council took out a rally against US drone attacks and the government’s decision to grant the Most Favoured Nation status to India here. Hundreds of people participated in the rally holding banners and placard. Addressing the rally, speakers ...

LAHORE – A country famous for its blatant acts of brutality and violation of human rights besides having held a Himalayan territory for ages cannot be given a status of the most favourite nation. As Indian intransigence over Kashmir still runs deep, it by constructing 65 dams on Pakistani ...

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary Kashmir Committee has endorsed the decision of the government to give Most-Favoured Nation status to India and asked the ministries of foreign affairs and commerce to keep the Kashmir issue on priority during negotiations with India on trade and confidence-building ...

Dr Kamal MonnooThe announcement by the Government of Pakistan to grant the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India continues to draw mixed reaction from all quarters, industrialists, business community at large, agriculturists and security analysts. While, on the one hand, there is this lobby, ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Speakers at a seminar on 'Opening trade with India' warned that by awarding India MFN status in haste, the government would endanger Pakistans economy, culture and traditions. Former Chairman Pakistan Steel, General (R) Muhammad Javed, Chairman Pakistan Association of ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan Sharat Sabharwal has said that Pakistani business communitys concerns regarding MFN to India will be addressed fully and in this regard a team of Indian experts will visit Pakistan in the first quarter of 2012 to discuss non-tariff ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - Chairman of the Institute of Public Policy, former Federal Finance Minister and ex-VP of World Bank, Shahid Javed Burki has said that the MFN status to India would bring greater benefits to Pakistan, a smaller economy compared with India. Pakistan would emerge as the ...

ISLAMABAD - Ameer Jammaat-e-Islami (JI) Syed Munawar Hasan Thursday strongly rejecting the governments recent decision to grant India status of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) said that this was being done only on the US dictation as well its pressure and ultimately it would ruin the countrys economy. ...

KARACHI- The business community seems to be divided on the issue of trade with India and awarding the neighbouring country MFN (Most favoured Nation) status as interests of the industrialists/manufacturers and traders run in totally different directions. The sources have informed that local ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Pakistan should not promote trade with India until the Kashmir issue is not resolved. The people of Pakistan are fed up of the two party system and want change in political arena. Rule of law is the only solution to the poor state of Karachi. These views were expressed ...

RAWALPINDI Jamaat-Islami (JI) Azad Jammu and Kashmir Amir Abdur Rasheed Turabi has said trade with India should not be done at the cost of Kashmir cause. Declaring India as the most favoured nation for trade is not only against Pakistans national interests but also is mocking Kashmiris sacrifices ...

LAHORE The Central Shoora of the Jamaat-e-Islami has called upon the government to withdraw its decision to accord Most Favoured Nation(MFN) status to India and extend its full support to the Kashmir liberation movement as a party in the Kashmir dispute. The Shoora, through a resolution, said ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday told the National Assembly that the government has decided to grant most favoured (MFN) nation status to India. Responding to a question during the question hour session in the National Assembly, she said that the dialogue ...

LAHORE The government should not forget Indian mentality before sitting on the negotiation table for increasing the bilateral trade between the two countries as history has proven that India cant be trusted. It is hard to even think about giving Most Favourite Nation (MFN) status to India as ...