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Hamid Karzai hopes Pakistan will give transit route to India

KANDAHAR: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has expressed hope that Pakistan will provide access for a key transit route for trade between his land-locked country and India, underlining that commerce between the three nations is an essential element for their progress and stability.

"The trade has to happen if they want to establish the region with prosperity and free of conflict. I hope Pakistan will soon give transit route to India," he said.

Trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Pakistan and India, and trade between the three countries is an essential element for the progress and stability of the countries," Karzai said here yesterday in the Afghanistan's second largest city after the inauguration of the Afghan National Agricultural Sciences and Technology University (ANASTU), built with India's help.

Commenting on the issue of a transit route with Afghanistan,
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, "Pakistan has to open for the sake of Afghanistan. By this Afghanistan gets direct access to India via Pakistan. It will be of enormous help to Afghanistan."

"It is important that Afghanistan success would be guaranteed, if it has connectivity from all sides of border. We would want to see all countries step in including Pakistan," he added.

Khurshid said India will continue to push for Chabahar Port in
Iran as an alternative route to mineral-rich Afghanistan.

India's interest in the Iranian port is not only to get a direct access to Central Asia but also to facilitate import of minerals from Afghanistan.

Khurshid also said that India has to resolve issues with Pakistan like granting of the Most Favoured Nation status.

"They have promised MFN status to India, which has not been given to us yet," he said.

Pakistan has delayed the grant of MNF status to
India, which has not been given to us yet," he said.

Pakistan has delayed the grant of MNF status to India along with abolition of a negative trade list regime "for a short time" because of reservations expressed by several industries, Pakistani officials have said.
 
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Yeah right - it will probably be cheaper to travel to space and then land in Afghanistan :coffee:
:mad: :yay:

You are looking for free petrol from Pakistan, otherwise Iranian route allow you free transit, but no subsidies.
 
Ok so this is what i know why Afghanistan traders still prefer Pakistan.

Their is a UN convention through which a landlocked country should be provided access to sea through his neighbour with no or minimum tax(Google it)

Now as we know Pakistan is a thekedaar of Islami world and bow down to this convention which means through Pakistan route the goods will be transported to Afghanistan cheap.

While iran unlike us look's for its interest and most probably doesnt agree with the UN convention or something like that hence through iran a Common Traders from Afghansitan will cost him many times more than through Pakistan.

All the above i saw in a live program and when is searched about it.It was true

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I believe Pakistan should have given india access to afghanistan long time ago.
 
I feel, i shall consult lawyer!
why spend more, apas main decide kar lete hain... :o:
seriously was it you or batmannow who wrote in every thread that transit to India is the root of all evil like terrorism, black marketing and sectarianism.
 
why spend more, apas main decide kar lete hain... :o:
seriously was it you or batmannow who wrote in every thread that transit to India is the root of all evil like terrorism, black marketing and sectarianism.

I confess, it was me.... any doubts on the statement?
 
Pakistan is already flooded with Afghan drugs and other countries also blame Pakistan as Afghan use transit given to them for trade for drugs export and on top of that these duty free items ends up in Pakistan destroying our economy and huge losses in revenue. So, Pakistan should apologies any kind of transit to this thankless nation and ask them to do trade with other countries via Iran.
 

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