By IANS,
New Delhi : India was in touch with Pakistan on the issue of importing its onions, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said Friday, a day after the government urged Islamabad to review its ban on exporting the vegetable by land route through the Wagah checkpost.
“We are in touch with the government of Pakistan,” Krishna told reporters here.
The government urged Islamabad Thursday to review its decision. “We have urged them (the authorities in Pakistan) that the contracted quantities, which were to come via the land route, should be released,” Commerce Minister Anand Sharma had said.
Earlier this week, Pakistan stopped 300 trucks carrying the root vegetable to India via the Wagah border crossing after complaints that exports to India had caused a sharp spike in onion prices in Pakistan.