Pakistan rules out MFN status to India before 2014 polls

October 10, 2013 09:23

India is unlikely to be grantedthe Most Favoured Nation status before 2014 Lok Sabhaelections and resumption of composite dialogue between the two nations, Pakistan finance minister has said.

Describing the recent meeting between the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in New York last month as "excellent", the visiting Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, told a Washington audience that Islamabad had to "put on hold" granting MFN status to India in view of the public pressure in the aftermath of the unfortunate incident on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

"There are public sentiments. So we had to put it (MFN status) on hold," Dar said yesterday in response to a question at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based eminent American think tank.

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