Pakistan Vegetable Import Pakistan planning to import vegetables from India amid spike in vegetable prices due to flood
Islamabad: Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said Pakistan is considering importing vegetables from arch-rival India to mitigate flood fallout.
Pakistan is currently being ravaged by flood.
Pakistan is witnessing a massive hike in flood prices due to current floods.
"We can consider importing vegetables from India," the minister was quoted as saying by Geo News, adding that Turkey and Iran could also be other options.
Miftah said the government can consider importing vegetables and other edible items from India for the facilitation of the people in wake of the destruction of standing crops in Pakistan.
Commenting on the possibility, Dr Khaqan Najeeb, former Advisor Ministry of Finance, told Geo News that regional integration can be thought of as a public good and the South Asia region can benefit from it.
“Thinking about India-Pakistan, there are good economic grounds to think of the two nations moving on bilateral trade,” he said.
The flash floods and heavy rainfall in the country has so far left over 1,000 people dead.
More than 33 million people have been hit due to rainfall.
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