Group, Karim was also responsible for opening up Europe to free trade with India. He narrowly escaped the Mumbai attacks at Hotel Taj in November 2008. Despite the atrocity, Karim does not wish the remaining killer Ajmal Kasab to be sentenced to death. He said: "I believe he had a fair and transparent trial and I support the guilty verdict. But I am not a supporter of capital punishment. I believe he should be given a life sentence, but that life should mean life." Trade links The size of India-Pakistan trade is very small relative to the size of their economies and the fact that they share a contiguous border. Trade across direct routes has been curtailed formally, so the bulk of India-Pakistan trade is routed through Dubai. See also Foreign relations Foreign relations of India Foreign relations of Pakistan South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) History History of India History of the Republic of India History of Pakistan History of the Kashmir conflict Human rights Human rights in India Human rights in Pakistan Persecution of Hindus Persecution of Muslims Cultural issues Hindi-Urdu controversy Anti-Pakistan sentiment Indophobia Wars and skirmishes Indo-Pakistani Wars India–Pakistan border skirmishes Sports India-Pakistan cricket rivalry India-Pakistan field hockey rivalry India–Pakistan football rivalry References Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . Further reading Budania, Rajpal, "India's Pakistan Policy: A Study in the Context of Security," South Asian Studies, Vol.30:2,1995. Burke, S.M.,Mainsprings of Indian and Pakistani Foreign Policies, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1974. Brines Russel, The Indo-Pakistan Conflict, London, Pall Mall Press, 1968. Malone, David M., C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan, eds. The Oxford handbook of Indian foreign policy (2015) excerpt pp 370–83. Thomas Powers, "The War without End" (review of Steve Coll, Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Penguin, 2018, 757 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXV, no. 7 (19 April 2018), pp. 42–43. "Forty-plus years after our failure in Vietnam, the United States is again fighting an endless war in a faraway place against a culture and a people we don't understand for political reasons that make sense in Washington, but nowhere else." (p. 43.) Pakistan's support of Afghanistan's Taliban guerrillas, including provision of sanctuary, relates to Pakistan's hope of acquiring India's Kashmir. (p. 42.) External links Aman ki Asha - A Peace initiative by Jang Group, Pakistan &