Originally Posted by Navid

Giving MFN status to India for the purpose of benefiting from mutual trade will also be a loss for Pakistan because we are not in a position to develop a strong negative list. We depend on foreign products from eatables to electronics, and automobiles to aeroplanes. Imagine if we give MFN status to India, we will be drived to import all our needful items from India and increasing our dependency on her. If ever a dropfall comes in the mutual relations, Pakistan will face a huge setback, as it will have to adjust its imports (import from anyother country). On the other hand, we do not have enough products (be they industrial or agricultural) that we could export to India and earn huge revenues. First we need to develop our internal market and business, attract FDI and improve law and order situation in order to be a competitive trade partner with somebody else.

At the same time, the reservations of the majority of Pakistanis are correct and they depict the view of Adeel Abdullah as he has written above. Pakistan is suffering huge losses due to Kashmir (remember the floods every year!), our rivers remain dry most of the year and suddenly overflow in the monsoon season; it is not due to monsoon but the opening of wasteful collected water from Indian dams within Kashmir. Our Indus-Basin treaty is being ruined by India and dams are being constructed in Kashmir on the rivers belonging to Pakistan as mentioned in the treaty. Several UN agreements to solve the Kashmir crisis have been burried down by India and now it claims that Kashmir is India's "Attot Ang".

Foreign involvement in our tribal areas and specially Balochistan has severally been proved, whereby passports and other documents of illegal Indians were recovered in these areas by the Pakistani Armed Forces. India has a huge number of consulates on the Pak-Afghan Belt in the Afghanistan side, what is the purpose of such a large number of consulates? Only one consulate per province shouldn't be enough? The Mumbai-Terror case (26/11) also seams to be a drama by India to malign Pakistan and maintain tense relations and keep such an environment in which defusing of tensions for the purpose of continuing dialogue and solving mutual problems / issues remains hanged. India is not co-operating for a fair trial in the said case, our team for cross-examining the prosecution of the case was not allowed to do its task, right. There are so many example to quote from the past and the present, and simply to summarize the Quran cannot be false, which says that the non-muslims can never be your sincere friends, so how can you expect that you will build a trust relationship with them forever and maintain a peaceful co-existence?