Traders optimistic about Pak, India FM's meeting

ISLAMABAD: The people engaged in cross-LoC trade are looking forward to the forthcoming meeting between the foreign ministers of Pakistan and India in New Delhi with so many hopes.

Hilal Ahmad Turki, General Secretary of the Cross-LoC Traders' Association said, "We demand an increase in the number of cross-LoC trading days from two a week to four. The trade list includes just 21 items. It must be expanded to include all tradable commodities," Kashmir Media Service reported.

He said that the trade was purely on barter basis and demanded provision of banking facilities for traders of both sides so that the trade could be carried on as a modern commercial practice.

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