Pakistan's restoration of partial trade with India exposes Imran Khan govt's myopic Kashmir rhetoric

Pakistan also tried to give some relief to its patients by removing its self-imposed trade ban and allowed imports of life-saving drugs, Indian sources said.

"Political rhetoric has fallen short and Imran Khan government's ill planning is evident from the incident," a government source said.

"Imran Khan government has bowed down under pressure," the source said.

Pakistan imports almost 50 percent of its raw materials for medicines from India.

"These medicines include life-saving drugs for the cure of the diseases like cancer, tuberculosis, cardiac and others," the source said.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan government is likely to remove all import taxation from imported medicines and raw goods from China.

On Aug 6, Indian Parliament passed a statutory resolution removing Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and the J&K Reorganisation Bill, 2019 which bifurcated the State.

J&K became a Union territory with a Legislative Assembly, along with UT status to Ladakh without a Legislative Assembly.

Relationship between India and Pakistan touched new lows earlier this year following the Pulwama terror attack incident while the Kashmir move of India led to a full-scale diplomatic war.