Pak cabinet rejects proposal to import cotton, sugar from India: Reports

The U-turn comes a day after Finance Minister Hammad Azhar announced that Pakistan will be lifting a ban that was imposed in the wake of heightened tension over Kashmir in 2019

Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan's federal cabinet rejected an Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) proposal to import cotton and sugar from India, reported local media on Thursday. The rejection comes a day after the top economic body gave a go ahead to the import of cotton, cotton yarn and sugar from the neighbouring country.

A proposal of the ECC to import cotton yarn and sugar from India was rejected by the cabinet on Thursday, according to a news report by Pakistan's Geo News that quoted its sources. 

Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said on Twitter that only after the cabinet's