Pakistan has said it has identified the items to be offered to India for trade concessions under the South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement, even as it asserted that the extent of trade concessions it planned to offer would depend on the kind of "attitude" New Delhi demonstrated.
Pakistan would be offering a list of items for trade concessions under SAPTA at the final round of talks between the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries to be held in the first week of next month in Kathmandu, Pakistan's Commerce Minister Humayaun Akthar Khan said, but declined to reveal details.
"It depends upon the attitude of India that how much we can offer her in the upcoming round of talks which is going to be held in December," he said in an interview to local daily The Nation on Thursday.
Khan, who had made statements in the past linking progress of trade talks with India to movement on dialogue on Kashmir, said that Pakistan has already identified items to be offered to India in the final round of SAPTA round in Kathmandu.
"We have already identified those items on which we may offer concession in terms of preferential exchange of items in India in the upcoming round of talks under SAPTA," he said, adding his ministry was in touch with Pakistan foreign office to remove all impediments in this regard to get the "desired" results.
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