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Vibhuti Agarwal in the Wall Street Journal:

But the basmati bandwagon has been derailed in the wake of the November’s terrorist attack on Mumbai, which was launched by militants sailing from Karachi.

“Talks on the issue are stalled following the Mumbai terror attacks,” said Haroon Rashid, vice chairman of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan, in Lahore.

Earlier this year, then-Indian Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh told the upper house of India’s Parliament that all negotiations and communications on basmati were on the back burner.

“The joint registration of basmati rice would have to wait till full normalization of relations took place between India and Pakistan,” he said. More:

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