INDORE: After tomatoes, khajur trade with Pakistan has gone sour. Dealers of dry dates in Indore have decided to completely cut off trade ties with Pakistan - even if it means forsaking a major chunk of their profit margin - in protest against the Pulwama terror attack.Many of them have cancelled orders and are ready to pay demurrage for declining to accept deliveries. Just the same way that tomato growers in Petlawad on Monday said they are willing to sacrifice their earnings but won't trade with Pakistan any longer.Indore is a major market for dry dates, rock salt and mango from Pakistan. The volumes are massive - every day 320 quintals of dry dates arrives from Pakistan at Siyaganj Wholesale Kirana market. Traders are now looking at Iraq and Iran to source khajur.Ramesh Khandelwal, president of Siyaganj Wholesale Kirana Merchant Association, said, "Each and every trader has decided not to keep any business relations with Pakistan. We are ready to pay more to other countries but will not give a single paisa in trade with Pakistan." From Indore, dry dates are supplied across the whole state and to Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh , Andhra Pradesh and some parts of Maharashtra . Dry dates and rock salt have been coming from Pakistan for decades, but now there is a "blanket ban", he added.

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