Click to play videoNew Delhi: India is mounting economic and diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to act on terrorist groups in its territory.
Sources tell CNN-IBN that New Delhi has put on hold all further trade initiatives with Islamabad. Initiatives, which have been frozen, include talks on setting up an integrated check post at Wagah border to facilitate trade, opening up of more bank branches in each other's countries and a proposal to run more trains to transport goods between India and Pakistan.
Talks on Sir Creek, postponed before the Mumbai attacks, are also not being rescheduled for now. Dialogue between Commerce Secretaries and talks on Siachen are also on hold indefinitely.
India has already announced it will tighten its screening of Pakistani visa seekers. The Government has also called off a scheduled trip next week to Pakistan by a Planning Commission delegation, which was to lay the groundwork and finalise dates for a visit by Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
Sources say the trip was called off on the insistence of the Ministry of External Affairs following the terror attack. India and Pakistan playing cricket with each other in the immediate future is also ruled out.
Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh, who was to visit Islamabad and Karachi early January, has "more or less" cancelled the tour.
India had earlier given two sets of date for Ramesh's visit, which was to take place before secretary-level talks. "It was either January 5-9 or 13th onward," he said.
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