New Delhi: Announcing that it would review the Most Favoured Nation status granted to Pakistan by it based on the security and trade interests on the grounds that terror cannot be the commodity exported, India proudly owned the surgical strikes carried out by the Army yet again, saying it was done “with surgical precision”.
On whether the Government would put out footage of the strikes in the public domain, MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said any such decision “is determined solely by national security”.
“Promoting shared prosperity with neighbours has been government's priority but terror cannot be the commodity exported. We will undertake a review based on our security and trade interests,” Mr. Swarup said.
However, any scrapping of the MFN status to Pakistan by India — given in 1996 — is largely symbolic given the relatively meagre trade between the two countries. Pakistan had never reciprocated in the past two decades on MFN status for India.
