Article: SAARC can bring real cooperation in South Asia

Ravi M. Khanna is a longtime South Asia observer. He has also headed
the South Asia Desk in the Voice of America Newsroom in Washington and
published a book called "TV News Writing Made Easy for Newcomers".

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At last India and Pakistan, it seems, have woken up to the need for
genuine cooperation in South Asia where countries of the region start
depending on each other for those crucial products which they now
import from the West. This way they will pay lower freights and at the
same time contribute to the economic growth of the region.

May be the first step in this direction came this week when New Delhi
and Islamabad agreed in principle to trade in electricity through a
specially-built high voltage direct current link between Amritsar and
Lahore. Right now the plan is to transfer 500 MW through the Punjab
border with the tariff linked to the market rate.

If this kind of pragmatism spreads in the region, the region, given
its potential, can become a bigger market than China and the whole of
Europe and can also become self-reliant in a number of products and
services that they now import from the West. And the West knows that,
and may be that is why it does not encourage such logical moves that
may not serve their self-interest.

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