Loud Thinking

Mr. PM..! Trade with honour not trade of honour

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

AoA.

We take this opportunity to earnestly appeal to your honour that you should not bow before the Indians, like the dictator Pervaiz Musharraf fell to their feet, when he unilaterally allowed India to erect the fence, at the LOC of Kashmir.

As per international law, border fencing is only allowed and can be done, at the fringes of the recognised international borders only. That was the specific reason, why Pakistan never allowed fencing of borders by India, even at the working boundary i.e., the area of Indian held Kashmir bordering Pakistan’s international borders.

Mian Sahab, Pakistan and India must make trade on an equal terms; and since, as per media reports, you have decide to accord MFN or NDMA status to India on the coming Friday, even after India has refused to withdraw, non tariff barriers (NTB’s) and custom duties; you should ensure that Pakistan also imposes NTB’s and custom duties on the Indian goods, on a reciprocal basis.

Let no body say in the posterity that democrat Mian Nawaz Sharif, also fell to the feet of the Indians (when they were not even ready to allow Pakistani TV signals and sportspersons to enter into India), just like the timid dictator Pervaiz Musharraf, who fell onto the feet of the Indians, to please the Americans, in exchange for obtaining legitimacy, of his illegal government.

With best wishes and all the better hopes that you will never allow Pakistani flag to be lowered before the Indians, because peace is only durable, if it is to prevail on equal terms. Peace on unequal terms, is a sure recipe for war, in the future..!

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad