India to use pakistan Air space for trade with Afganishtan!!

[Je suis de retour]

Now india could trade with Afganistan by making use of pakistans seaport as well as Pakistans Air-space



The Pak-Afghan pact was signed between Pakistan and Afghanistan under pressure from the USA on July 18. Under this pact, Pakistan will provide transit trade between Afghanistan and India through its air space.

Pakistan had denied its land route to India but it agreed to provide air space which may benefit the latter but will cause damage to Pakistan's security as well as its economy.

India has been successful in attaining Pakistani air space for trade with Afghanistan by coaxing the US to put pressure on Pakistan.

Both India and Afghanistan stand to gain while Pakistan is bound to be at a loss in more ways than one.

The government seems to have taken an important decision overnight by approving and signing the deal without consulting the parliament, leave alone the nation. Is this how foreign policy decisions are taken by a democratic government?

What is the difference between a dictator and a democratic government then?

Is there any need for India to negotiate further when it has acquired what it wanted? It never holds discussions over India-held Kashmir which it claims to be its internal issue.

It has been said that Afghanistan would facilitate Pakistan a transit trade route to Central Asian states. Did Pakistan really need a transit route to these countries via Afghanistan when we have China on our north which can easily give us access?

Last but not the least the media stated that Pakistan denies land access to India, but conveniently evaded the news that Pakistan agrees to provide air space to India.

FAHMIDA ABDUL SATTAR
Karachi

DAWN.COM | Letters to the Editor | Implications of Pak-Afghan pact

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

THIS IS FALSE NEWS

READ THIS NEWS RELEASE



http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...ods-allowed-afghanistan-through-pakistan.html

 

[Je suis de retour]

THIS IS FALSE NEWS

READ THIS NEWS RELEASE



http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...ods-allowed-afghanistan-through-pakistan.html

SO YOU ARE DENYING YOUR OWN SOURCES DAWN


anyhow you need to read thoroughly again.
This part
"
Pakistan had denied its land route to India but it agreed to provide air space which may benefit the latter but will cause damage to Pakistan's security as well as its economy. "


and now read Your source again

"Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Tuesday, that under the Pak-Afghan Transit Trade Arrangement (APTTA), only transport of trade goods from Afghanistan would be allowed and that to up to Wahga border only while no Indian goods would be transported to Afghanistan through this route"

Trade could be both sided or single sided, we are gonna get Afgan goods, Our transportation comapanies are gonna use pakistans air space , bring the goods from Afghanishtan till lahore and than transport the rest via Wagha border...

SO STOP THE SOCOMO GAME AND TRY TO BE A GOOD READER INSTEAD.
WE ARE GONNA PAY AND GET GOODS.. Not Vice versa...

What i wrote above concurs your post and mine also.
In ends its reality

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

^^^lol, good trick...you got me for a minute. Good lesson to never trust a barathi.

 

[Brotherhood]

^^^lol, good trick...you got me for a minute. Good lesson to never trust a barathi.

Whats the deal about letter to the editor from the article? personal stuff like a forum?

 

[AbuSalam]

Whatz happening here ?
Yes the news is in dawn.com
Is this true or a flip flop by the newspaper ?

 

[Je suis de retour]

^^^lol, good trick...you got me for a minute. Good lesson to never trust a barathi.

Dude no one could make you understand this unless and until you remove the Myopic glasses of super duper pak vision.

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

Dude no one could make you understand this unless and until you remove the Myopic glasses of super duper pak vision.

great another 23 year old indian who has the mentality of a 10 year old.

 

[Je suis de retour]

Whatz happening here ?
Yes the news is in dawn.com
Is this true or a flip flop by the newspaper ?

Its true, go and read from dawn.com
The first line in DARK BOLD is what Dawn editors said and rest part is its Implications.

 

[Je suis de retour]

great another 23 year old indian who has the mentality of a 10 year old.

Now ignoring, because you havent got point to deny the VALIDATION of news.
Instead you opted for in born trolling habit so

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

i dono what idiot pakistani reporters that are doing this. this is something expected from a indian news source not pakistani.

 

[Arjun MBT]

i dono what idiot pakistani reporters that are doing this. this is something expected from a indian news source not pakistani.

Now , let this be a lesson for You, Reality is Sour Than Expectation

 

[Pride]

Strangely, everything good happens in terms of Indo-Pak relations there are set of people with mindset to seee everything wrong.

Pak allowed India to use Air and Sea space which is same from India to Pak while both has refused each to provide land route and main reason behind this is threat of an attack on vehicles and insurgency.

This unnecessary rigidness of both govt for not using routes increases expnese of govt which goes down for individual citizen. imagin how much ATF gets waste when one fly from Delhi to Kabul through other air route in place of direct Pak route. Same is true for Pak as well when one flies from Karachi to Dhaka...

 

[Mirza Jatt]

I am still not sure of this news, if the news is true, then we should have seen the news in Indian and even Pakistani main news sources..this news is surely from dawn , but seems to be some kind of letter to the ed or something...hope I am wrong and the news is true !

 

[ejaz007]

‘No Indian goods to be allowed to Afghanistan through Pakistan’

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Tuesday, that under the Pak-Afghan Transit Trade Arrangement (APTTA), only transport of trade goods from Afghanistan would be allowed and that to up to Wahga border only while no Indian goods would be transported to Afghanistan through this route.

While addressing a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, he said that only a letter of understanding has been signed for this purpose so far.

“Confusion is prevailing from the very first day in this regard and reports, editorials and special reports contrary to the facts and against the interests of the country are being published,” said the minister.

“The letter of understanding has been signed for one way transit trade facility for Afghan goods up to Wahga border, and not for reverse trade from India. This would be a bilateral agreement under which Pakistan would allow Afghan goods export to India via Wahga border and Kabul will provide transit facility to Pakistani goods to Central Asians States (CARs),” he said.

Kaira said that it was regrettable that despite the fact that even though the government made it very clear right at the outset that the transit facility would only be for Afghan goods, now on the third day of the news, a section of press has carried editorial comments and special reports on the assumption that Indian trade through Pakistan would be against our interests.

To a question, he said that Pakistan Customs would evaluate the Afghan goods at the Torkham border, seal the containers and issue bank bonds, which would only be returned after the goods are handed over to India at Wahga border. He also made it clear that only a letter of understanding in this regard has been signed till now and an MoU would be signed only after approval of the cabinet after which it would become a bilateral agreement, but it has been decided that no Indian goods would be allowed to be imported from India through this route.

Further elaborating, Kaira said under this arrangement, Pakistan would benefit more because in Afghanistan there is no industrial set up, while our goods being exported to CARs by air cargo or by sea route would become more competitive by transit trade through Afghan land route. He added that Afghanistan is also using Pakistani seas to export goods to India so it is not a new phenomenon.

To a question, the minister said the federal government has the authority to sign bilateral agreement with any country.

However, he said the government has taken into confidence PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif and other stockholders on the issue.

He said that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had talked to the PML-N chief and discussed various issues including APTTA and Pak-US strategic dialogue.

He said that he himself and Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim had already clarified the issue and even issued a press release to explain the factual situation but even after that the negative comments continued. While responding to a query over the reservations of transporters, the minister said that the government would take the transporters into confidence on the issue. He opined that by transit trade through Afghanistan and Pakistani transporters would greatly benefit. Kaira said that Pakistan also desires to enhance its trade with neighboring India but before that it was necessary to settle outstanding issues including Kashmir. app

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