New Delhi:
Pakistan is importing key life-saving
drugs and vitamins from India as cases of Covid-19 and other ailments continue to rise there.
ET has learnt that Pakistan government has lifted the ban on import of medicines and raw material from India to ensure there is no shortage of essential drugs amid the pandemic.
Quoting a document of Pakistan’s ministry of national health services (NHS), Pakistan’s leading English daily The Dawn reported that a number of vitamins, drugs and medicinal salts have been imported from India recently.
Following India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu &
Kashmir under
Article 370, the
Imran Khan government had on August 9, 2019 suspended all kinds of trade with India. But after the pharmaceutical industry there appealed for a relaxation and sought clearance for goods already imported from India, the Pakistan government relented.