India, Pak Trade Rise By 92% In 2006-07

Trade between India and Pakistan has risen to 1.67 billion dollars in 2006-07 over the previous year. Bilateral trade during 2005-06 was 868.79 million dollars, which grew 92 per cent in the subsequent fiscal.

For the April-June period of the current fiscal, India''s exports to Pakistan were to the tune of 406.49 million dollars, Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh said in a written reply. Imports from Pakistan for the first quarter of 2007-08 stood at 68.17 million dollars, he said, adding that bilateral trade during the period was 474.66 million dollars.