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Historical burden: Pak still owes India Rs 300 cr
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New Delhi, July 6 (PTI) Pakistan is yet to clear a pre- partition debt of Rs 300 crore to India, which has been carrying forward year after year in its Budget account as a "liability".
The Budget books refer to this Rs 300 crore as "amount due from Pakistan on account of share of pre-partition debt."
The amount was entered as a liability in the first Budget of independent India in 1950-51 and has been there ever since.
But this a measly amount compared to the union government's total liabilities that total Rs 34,95,452 crore and accounts for just 0.008 per cent of the total liabilities.
However, in 1950-51 this amount accounted for more than 10 per cent of India's total liabilities of Rs 2,865.40 crore and nearly 10 times of India's total external debt of Rs 32 crore.
Surprisingly, New Delhi has not added interest to this amount since its entry in the books.
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Firstly, this is a news from Press Trust of India. So I hope that all the reverse claims should be from credible Pakistani sources as well(not Zaid Hamid types).
Secondly, it's not a huge amount I know. But anyone would not prefer to owe a single penny to their "existential threat".
Thirdly, I am proud of Indian Govt. on this issue. GoP which routinely asks compensation for Indus water from India, would have got a better reply that you already owe us 300 crore rupees(without any inflated value and without any interest), but thankfully to the maturity of GoI this issue never came up in 60 years.
That clearly implies that India do not want to hurt Pakistan in any way, even when many in Pakistan may find solace in imagining so.