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Annual Conference
on
Normalizing India-Pakistan Trade

Date: March 14-15, 2013
Venue: Jacaranda Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Programme

Day 1: 14th March 2013 (Thursday)
9:30- 9:45 am
Registration
9:45- 10:30 am
Inaugural session

Chair: Isher Judge Ahluwalia (Chairperson, ICRIER, New Delhi)

Keynote Address: Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal (Minister for Railways, Government of India)
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Vote of Thanks: Rajat Kathuria (Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER, New Delhi)
10:30- 11:00 am
Tea/Coffee
11:00- 1:00 pm
Session 1: Expanding Trade in Goods

Chair: Hafiz Pasha (Dean, Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore; former Commerce Minister, Finance Minister and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan)

Presentations by:

Comments by:

  • Aradhna Aggarwal (Senior Fellow, NCAER, New Delhi)
  • Deb Kusum Das (Associate Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi)
  • Saikat Sinha Roy (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
1:00- 2:00 pm
Discussion

Special Address by S R Rao (Commerce Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India) [Video]
Lunch
2:00- 4:00 pm
Session 2: Barriers to Trade

Chair: Surjit Bhalla (Chairman, Oxus Investments)

Presentations by:

Comments by:

  • Naeem Anwar (Minister-Trade, Pakistan High Commission, New Delhi)
  • Ram Upendra Das (Senior Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries(RIS), New Delhi)
  • Pardeep Sehgal (Partner, Sinochem Impex, Amritsar)
Discussion
4:00- 4:30 pm
Tea/Coffee
4:30- 5:30 pm
Session 3: Trade Perception Survey

Chair: Sanjay Kathuria (Lead Economist, Regional Integration, World Bank, Washington DC)

Presentations by:
  • Nisha Taneja, Mishita Mehra, Prithvijit Mukherjee (ICRIER, New Delhi) [Download Presentation]
  • Sanjib Pohit (Senior Principal Scientist, NISTAD, New Delhi)

Comments by:

  • Atindra Sen (Senior Advisor, Transnational Strategy Group, India)
  • Usman Khan (Faculty Member, LUMS, Lahore) [Download Presentation]
7:30 pm
Special Address by Salman Shah (Former Finance Minister, Pakistan)

Chair: N K Singh (Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha) [Video]
8:30 pm
Dinner Reception

Day 2: 15th March 2013 (Friday)
9:00- 11:00 am
Session 4: focusing on Energy, Textiles, and Sports goods

Chair: I. N. Mukherji (Senior Consultant, RIS, New Delhi)

Presentations by:

Comments by:

  • Syed Yawar Ali (Chairman, NestlĂ© Pakistan Ltd)
  • Biswajit Nag (Associate Professor, IIFT, New Delhi)
  • Prabir De (Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi)
Discussion
11:00- 11:30 pm
Tea/Coffee
11:30- 1:30 pm
Session 5: Trade in Services and FDI

Chair: Anupam Khanna (Chief Economist and Director-General, NASSCOM, Delhi)

Presentations by:

Comments by:

  • B N Goldar (Visiting Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
  • Jehan Ara (President, Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES, Karachi)
  • Arpita Mukherjee (Professor, ICRIER, New Delhi)
Discussion
1:30- 2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30- 4:00 pm
Panel Discussion on India-Pakistan Trade: The Way Forward

Moderator: Sanjaya Baru (Director for Geo-economics and Strategy, International Institute for Strategic Studies, New Delhi)

Speakers:
  • Rajeev Kher (Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India)
  • Hafiz Pasha (Dean, BNU, Lahore and former Commerce Minister, Finance Minister and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan)
  • Syed Yawar Ali (Chairman, NestlĂ© Pakistan Ltd) [Download Presentation]
  • Nagesh Kumar (Director, UN-ESCAP South and South-West Asia Office and Chief Economist, UN-ESCAP)
  • Manoj Pant (Professor, Centre for International Trade and Development, JNU, New Delhi)
  • Nisha Taneja (Professor, ICRIER, New Delhi)
4:00- 4:30 pm
Concluding session

Vote of thanks: Rajat Kathuria (Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER, New Delhi)
4:30- 5:00 pm
Tea/Coffee
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