{"id":47693,"date":"2019-08-07T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47693"},"modified":"2019-08-07T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:55:34","slug":"pakistan-suspends-bilateral-trade-with-india-expels-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47693","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Suspends Bilateral Trade With India, Expels Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pakistan Suspends Bilateral Trade With India, Expels Envoy<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Kashmir crisis triggered by India’s revoking of Article 370 from its constitution<\/strong> has exploded into a fast escalating renewed crisis between nuclear armed arch-rivals India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merely within the last 24-hours Pakistan has recalled its ambassador while expelling its Indian envoy, and more importantly has taken the drastic step of suspending bilateral trade with India<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will call back our ambassador from Delhi and send back their envoy,\u201d foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced in televised comments, according to the AFP, while a separate government statement declared trade suspended and a downgrading of diplomatic ties.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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File image of Pakistani National Security Council meeting<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The committee has decided on “downgrading of diplomatic relations with India” and “suspenstion of bilateral trade with India,” according to the statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM Khan further directed the military to “continue vigilance” after previously saying Pakistan would take “all possible options” in support of Kashmir’s Muslim-majority population <\/strong>– this after regional media has reported “tens of thousands” of Indian troops have surged into Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), while a phone and internet blackout is in place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a worrisome sign that the two historic rivals and neighbors could be again moving to open war, Khan is reported to have said<\/a>, “We have to choose between dishonor and war.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan’s foreign minister\u00a0informed<\/a>\u00a0the United Nations early this week it is\u00a0prepared to act\u00a0<\/strong>in response to the “critical situation”- which Khan reiterated to the high level defense committee meeting Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The now voided Article 370 is legally and historically\u00a0what assured a high degree autonomy for the Indian administered\u00a0Muslim-majority state, enshrined in the constitution,\u00a0which\u00a0inhabitants there see as justifying remaining part of India. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata leadership in New Delhi, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, revoked J&K’s\u00a0status quo ability and rights to\u00a0maintain their own local governance on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pakistan Suspends Bilateral Trade With India, Expels Envoy The Kashmir crisis triggered by India’s revoking of Article 370 from its constitution has exploded into a fast escalating renewed crisis between nuclear armed arch-rivals India and Pakistan. Merely within the last 24-hours Pakistan has recalled its ambassador while expelling its Indian envoy, and more importantly has taken the drastic step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[422,18982,1745,26485,805,862,4318],"class_list":["post-47693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-india","tag-kashmir","tag-pakistan","tag-shah-mehmood-qureshi","tag-trade","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47694,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47693\/revisions\/47694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}