On Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was attentive to the issue of tariffs recently imposed by the United States in Pakistan, as well as many countries that are granted a three -month suspension of them.
Development occurs when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he would stop many of his new rates for 90 days, even when he raised more in China imports.
Trump’s sudden revocation occurred less than 24 hours after the new steep rates were put into play in imports of dozens of commercial partners. The new commercial barriers have reached the markets, have increased the chances of recession and caused reprisal responses of China and the European Union.
The Government said Wednesday that it was scheduled to send a high -level delegation to the US. To promote commercial relations and discuss a 29 percent rate that has been imposed on goods that imports from the United States of Pakistan.
Answering a question during his weekly press conference in Islamabad, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shafqat Ali Khan, said that Pakistan was following the issue of the tariff imposition by the United States and the recent suspension of imports from most countries.
He added that, taking into account the interconnected nature of global trade, the tariff imposition could have a high range impact and emphasize a mutually beneficial resolution of the matter.
Regarding the interruption of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global Ugragra) for Pakistani Students, the spokesman said that the decision marked “the end of a 15 -year commitment that played a fundamental role in the promotion of academic and cultural links in addition to strengthening bilateral ties focused on education, science and technology and people’s contacts.”
Indian atrocities
Highlighting the situation in Kashmiro controlled by India, he condemned the denial of the Indian authorities of permission to celebrate Eidul Fitre sentences in the historic Jama Masjid and Eidgah in Srinagar, as well as on the sacred night of Lailatul Qadr.
“The Indian authorities have the habit of enforcing similar curbs in Srinagar in recent years,” he added.
He continued to restrict common people to congregate on special religious sometimes raises serious challenges to the religious freedom of Muslims in Indian control.
“The rights of the People of Kashmiro to freely practice their religion and the Pacific Assembly must be respected.”
Highlighting the other diplomatic commitments, the spokesman mentioned the telephone interactions of the DPM ISHAQ to find the Bangladesh advisor for Foreign Affairs Touhid Hossain, Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan, and the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
During the discussion with Rubio, the two leaders exchanged points of view on bilateral relations, economic cooperation and regional security, including the situation in Afghanistan and agreed to solve the problem of the American military team that remains in Afghanistan.
He also informed the media about the official visit of the Ambassador of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Amna Baloch, to Amman for the second round of bilateral political consultations between Pakistan and Jordan, scheduled to be held on Thursday.
During consultations, different regional and international issues of mutual interest and concern, including the current situation among others in the occupied Palestinian territories; The dynamics in evolution in Levante, the developments in southern Asia and the state of cooperation in different domains of the relations of Pakistan-Jordania.
