Twenty years after granting Pakistan the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status in 1996, India now proposes to review it in response to the September 18 Uri attack in which 18 soldiers died. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting on Thursday with senior officials from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of External Affairs to weigh India’s options on trade-related relations with Pakistan, official sources said.
The proposal to review the MFN status comes close on the heels of a similar meeting called by the Prime Minister Monday on the Indus Waters Treaty between the two countries. At that meeting, he told officials “rakt aur paani ek saath nahin beh sakta” (blood and water cannot flow together).
