What is sent to Pakistan from India, what will be the loss due to the closure of Attari-Wagh border

Pahalgam Terror Attack: The Modi government is taking strict action after the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir. The Attari-Wagah border between India and Pakistan has been closed. India has suspended the Indus Strait with Pakistan, orders have also been issued to cancel the visas of all Pakistani citizens and leave India within 48 hours. Many big government sources say that India is now preparing to stop exporting goods to Pakistan. In 2024, India’s exports to Pakistan reached a five -year high level of $ 1.21 billion.

These goods are sent from India to Pakistan

Many types of food items are exported from India to Pakistan, which are useful in everyday life, such as various fruits and vegetables. These include potatoes to onion, garlic.

Pakistan pulses, gram, basmati rice are also sent from India. Apart from this, many types of seasonal fruits such as mango, banana also imports Pakistan from India.

India’s tea is famous all over the world. The fragile tea leaves of Assam and Darjeeling are also sent to Pakistan. Apart from this, India also sends different types of spices such as chilli, turmeric, cumin. Along with this, other goods to be exported from India to Pakistan include organic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, sugar and confectionery.

What does India come from Pakistan?

The things coming from Pakistan to India include cement, rock salt, multani mitti, cotton, leather, some medical devices. Apart from this, Peshawari slippers and Lahori kurtas are also called from Pakistan to India.

The only land trade route from Attari Pakistan

Please tell that Attari is the first land in India, located just 28 km from Amritsar. The trade between India and Pakistan is done through the Attari-Wagah border, so this check point trade, especially related to the National Highway-1, has been playing an important role in imports from Afghanistan.

In the last few years, trade passed through many ups and downs on the Attari-Wagah Corridor. In 2017-18 and 2018-19 where trade took place between about 4100-4300 crore rupees. At the same time, in 2019-20 it decreased to 2772 crores and in 2020-21 to Rs 2639 crore.

Trade declined further in 2022-23 and it was just Rs 2257.55 crore. However, in 2023-24, the trade between the two countries increased to Rs 3886 crore. In 2023-24, 6,871 trucks were moved and the movement of passengers was recorded at 71,563.