@A-Team @nangyale @That Guy
To me the following questions are relevant:
1. Does Pakistan want to be a troll lie toll collector like in Norwegian fairy tales or does Pakistan want to develop a manufacturing and services base which it exports to Afghanistan and the CARs?
2. On the issue of free trade, I believe in free market and I think Pakistan as a country would be competitive but we cannot ignore that India has other trade barriers, even an economic Super Power like the US does not give free access to its markets to an ally like Pakistan.
3. What is good for the goose is good for the gander: If India cannot let Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan trade via overland routes to Pakistan -- why should the reverse be expected?
4. In exchange for giving Afghanistan access to the sea for almost 70 years, Pakistan is owed at least that much access to the CARs? So I believe there is no reason to even allow Afghanistan to export through Wagah -- Pakistan gives Afghanistan sea access in return Afghanistan gives Pakistan CAR access, pretty straightforward to me.
So to put it mildly the proclamations of Afghan officials and expectations are perplexing to me,