Pakistan has lost an estimated $40 billion from suspending trade with India, the PIBC chief says, as business leaders acknowledge India’s dominant economy and Pakistan’s smaller market after costly disengagement.
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has acknowledged that Pakistan’s military helps shape foreign policy and shares power with the civilian government through a consensus-based hybrid model, not equal power-sharing.
Imaan Mazari and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha were earlier sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment for criticising the military establishment on social media. However, the Pakistani Supreme Court had suspended that sentence in August this year.
The Indian diplomat went on to taunt Islamabad, saying that the "Form 47 government" of Pakistan will not dare to override directions from the Pakistani military, the "real rulers" of the country.
Farooq Abdullah, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and National Conference supremo, Farooq Abdullah laid bare his traitorous intentions when claimed that it is Pakistan, which is keeping the supposed Kashmir issue alive, or else New Delhi's plans are not good. Abdullah resorted to blatant fear-mongering and instigation, saying that Kashmiris should fight or be ready to perish into oblivion.