India willing to export petrol, diesel to Pakistan

Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 16:48 IST   |    1 Comments
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New Delhi: India will export petrol and diesel to Pakistan if the Islamic nation lifted a ban on its imports from across the border, a senior official said. "We have been pressing Pakistan since 2005 to remove petroleum products particularly diesel from the list of items it does not allow to be imported from India," the official said. "The issue may again be discussed when Commerce Secretaries of the two nation meet in Islamabad later this week." The then Oil Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar had in June 2005 raised the issue of India exporting diesel to Pakistan during his visit to Islamabad. Pakistan at that time promised to look into the demand but has not acted since then. Pakistan imports 4-5 million tons of diesel from Kuwait every year.
Source: PTI
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