Do you know;
The pipelines is being facilitated by China and work has started.
Do you know Iran is interested in CPEC.
Do you know Iran has offered to set up refineries in Gwadar.
Do you know Iran is supplying electricity to Gwadar region.
Do you know Iran is negotiating with Taliban ?
Do you know Pak-Iran relations are warming up.
Do you know China is the largest trading partner of Iran?
Do you know the so called road itself will take years to be ready?
Do you know motorways Pak is building to Kabul through Jalalabad?
Do you know CASA-1000 is passing from Afghanistan?
Do you know Afghanistan still uses Pakistani currency?
Do you know Gwadar is the most feasible port
for Afghanistan ?
Do you know afghan exports and imports through Gwadar are free and no tax is deducted?
Do you know Afghanistan is massively dependent on everything on Pakistan ?
Do you know Pak holds millions of Afghanis?
Do you know afghans are hunted down by Iranian border guards and there is no cross border movement between Iran and Afghanistan like Pak?
Do you know even afghan soldiers are teated by Pak?
First, most all you cited are media reports, mine were facts. so and so said blah blah is not very dependent.
Second, my hypothetical was under a sanction scenario and being isolated like N Korea. Under those circumstances even China would pull back- Simply because of sanctions US imposes. Presuming you understand what a sanction curtails. Example: Just a U.S only sanction on Pakistan would mean no country that is doing business with the U.S will support Pakistan, if it wants to continue to do business with U.S companies. Nobody came to Iran's aid when we sanctioned it, nobody is helping N Korea now. You would lose 3 out top 5 export destination. No 1 U.S, then No3. Afghanistan and NO 5 is Germany- at a minimum.
Btw, tell me why you think Iran will cut it's own foot- and not be the premier port and land for all these exports, rather go help Pakistan in this situation? They are looking at huge investments and revenue for themselves.
Also CPEC is all about chinese goods to the port, not other way around. That is why your local companies have already started to suffer. But that's another topic, I digress.
Your 3rd largest destination for export is Afghanistan. They need you now because they are landlocked. But once India and Iran port and rail line direct into Afghanistan is in place- They will cease to be landlocked in terms of export. Of course under this hypothetical sanction scenario, they will also cease importing from you i.e. Remember the article we are discussing here
You may not like my scenario, but my scenario based on IF U.S gets to point where we decide to sanction you like N Korea. Then it's bad times for Pakistan.
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