There is no reason to denigrate BD head of state for hina khar, you need to keep things in perspective... she is not even the foreign minister... any bilateral engagement would need to be with equivalent level official from BD..
pakistan can not be an alternative to india when it comes to trade..., its just a silly position to have.
BD is sovereign, it should see every state via the prism of how engagement would serve BD interest... nothing more ever. And I would not support a deeper engagement with PK until they pay up BDs share of reserves from 1971. The issue is not closed and should never be closed.
Aah glad she cancelled.... she is not the FM and would have little to say that other FMs would take seriously.
Alga chacha educated hoitey paren, kintu onar mukhey kono tax nai. Articulated definitely not....
You may not have caught my drift about trade with Pakistan vis-à-vis India.
We cannot have a dependency situation re: any raw material with India, neither with cotton nor with agri food products. Indian Banyas and their commerce ministry will try to take advantage of it using dirty leverage and their oldest trick up their sleeve - creating artificial supply crisis. We already saw this with Indian export of beef, cows, onions, potatoes and a host of other consumables to our country.
I was talking about putting our trading eggs in different baskets and diversifying import dependency from different countries besides India, and simply not just Pakistan.
Whether Pakistan can supply what we need remains to be seen. But we should preferably welcome it (and imports from D-8 countries like Indonesia and Turkey. among others) instead of say, from India. It is true that Indian imports are many times cheaper because freight via land and by marine means is far more economical.
But there are important exceptions. Indian exports of beef is actually buffalo meat and moreover is not Halal. There are other examples too where importing things from India is neither economical nor practical.
We must exercise careful judgment about importing things from India on a cost/quality basis and also on a case-by-case basis.
We must never give them any leverage where they take advantage of our trust by cutting off exports at crucial times, like they did so many times in the past.
Also we should grow a backbone and assign punitive tit-for-tat tariffs and NTBs on Indian imports whenever they block our exports to their country on flimsy "dumping" pretexts which are NOT TRUE.