India rejects Pakistan offer of help disbursing coronavirus cash

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Asia » Asia
Publish Date: 22:04 - 12 June 2020
Friday, 12 June _Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday offered to help neighboring India disburse cash to the public during the coronavirus lockdown, citing a report Indians were struggling to make ends meet, but India later rejected the offer.

Relations have been hostile between the two countries, and their troops regularly exchange fire across a disputed boundary in the mountainous region of Kashmir.

The Mumbai-based Center for Monitoring Indian Economy found in a survey in April that 84% of Indian households reported a drop in income since a lockdown was imposed in March. A third of those surveyed said they would run out of financial resources after one week.

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