Crops, cattle and houses… all ruined in floods, Pakistan remembered neighboring country India

The severe floods in Pakistan have brought great difficulty for the current Shahbaz Sharif government. Crops have been completely destroyed in Pakistan. This is a big setback for Pakistan which is already facing economic crisis. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also expressed grief over the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan on Monday. PM Modi tweeted, “Sad to see the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, injured and all those affected by this natural calamity and hope to restore normalcy soon.”

According to PTI   The death toll due to floods rose to 1136 on Monday and 1,634 people were injured. 

According to the data released by the National Disaster Management Authority, Pakistan’s main national organization dealing with natural disasters. 9,92,871 houses have been completely or partially destroyed. Millions of people are not getting food. With this, about 7.19 lakh cattle have been killed. And millions of acres have been submerged in fertile land.

International aid has started arriving after the appeal of the government led by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif amid the economic crisis in the country. Finance Minister Mifta Ismail has told that Pakistan’s economy has suffered a loss of up to $ 10 billion due to the flood. Due to the disaster, the supply of vegetables from Balochistan, Sindh and South Punjab has been badly affected.

Pakistan trapped in the disaster has remembered India. During a conversation with Radio Pakistan, Pakistan’s Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Monday that the government may consider importing vegetables and other food items from India for the convenience of the people after the floods destroyed the crops across the country. br />  
Let us tell that after India’s decision to abrogate Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan reduced its trade ties with India in August, 2019. . 

Quoting a source in Pakistan’s ‘don’ The newspaper reported that former security advisor M Yusuf was working on some proposals regarding trade with India. According to Dawn’s report, former commerce advisor Razak Dawood also spoke on several occasions to resume trade with India. 

In March 2021, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) announced It said that it would allow the private sector to import 0.5 million tonnes of sugar from India and cotton through the Wagah border. However, the decision was reversed within days after strong criticism from the main opposition parties—PML-N and PPP—which are now in the coalition government. 

As Dawn reported, the decision was Years with the change in government, the commerce ministry ruled out the possibility of resuming stalled bilateral trade in May.

The commerce ministry reacted to widespread speculation on social media That there is no change in Pakistan’s policy on trade with India.

Earlier in June, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had advocated for trade and engagement with other countries, especially India. The minister had put more emphasis on involving India, saying that it was time to move towards economic diplomacy and focus on engagement.

As Dawn reported, the Foreign Office later told Bilawal Issuing a clarification on the remarks, it said that there has been no change in Pakistan’s policy towards its eastern neighbor and there is a national consensus on this.  It can be inferred from these things that there is no consensus even among the ministries of the Government of Pakistan regarding relations with India.

Politics always dominates the economy in Pakistan





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Pak, which is facing economic crisis, finds it cheaper to buy textiles and sugar from India than other countries. In recent years, the production of Pakistan’s cotton and sugar has declined by 6.9 percent. Sugar exports have declined by up to 50 percent. Due to the decline in the production of cotton, there has also been a huge decline in exports in the textile industry, which is called the backbone of Pakistan’s economy. 

But business and economy have always been kept below politics in Pakistan. This has also been a reason for the economic plight of this country. However, such policies are seen in every country associated with the SAARC group. But in Pakistan, which is constantly facing economic crisis and is asking for loans from international institutions, politics is more important now than the national interest. 

Pakistan has taken a stubborn stand on the issue of Kashmir for the last 70 years. Even after losing three wars, he does not stop the rut of Kashmir. On the one hand, he tells the whole world that India should start talks, on the other hand its leaders keep chanting the old rage about Kashmir. The new government in Pakistan has also decided that there will be no dialogue until India reinstates Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. That is, his Shahbaz Sarkar, his predecessor Imran Khan‘s government is adopting the same stand. 

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