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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    211 : Pakistan-India Trade

    Shahid Javed Burki, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISAS

    10 August 2011

    With the invitation on 5 August 2011 from the Indian commerce minister to his Pakistani counterpart to visit New Delhi and hold substantive talks on improving trade relations between the two countries, groundwork may be laid for breaching the differences that have created enormous burdens of history. Trade is a good place to start but, as discussed in this brief, some serious work will needs to be done before real progress can be made.