Pakistan loses 50pc market share in Kabul

[koolio]

Pakistans security comes first, These afghans have proved time and time again, they are backstabbers and as such cannot be trusted, India cannot subsidize all the goods forever as its costing them more to transport the goods via Chabahar.

 

[Lil Mathew]

Add to this the criminality of the Afghans, the use of services, costs to house and look after all the namak haram trash, the use of trading routes as criminal/terrorist highways
Its an endless list of kak we have to deal with

Our dealing with Afghanistan should be strictly through view to protecting our own security and harming our enemies in Afghanistan including india

How trade & security is connected???

 

[Shabi1]

How trade & security is connected???

This trade is not taxed.
Those thousands of trucks and containers that go to Afghanistan don't come back empty. Afghanistan is the largest exporter of poppy. These drug and smuggling cartels employ and fund terrorists to distract the government and keep their operations running.

 

[Lil Mathew]

This trade is not taxed.
Those thousands of trucks and containers that go to Afghanistan don't come back empty. Afghanistan is the largest exporter of poppy. These drug and smuggling cartels employ and fund terrorists to distract the government and keep their operations running.

Then security must be tightened... Each & every containers should be checked or scanned... If the authorities are not corrupted smuggling can be controlled...

 

[My-Analogous]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1393106/pakistan-loses-50pc-market-share-in-kabul

KARACHI: India has succeeded to penetrate in Kabul slashing the market share of Pakistan by more than 50 per cent in the last two years, Chairman Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry Zubair Motiwala told Dawn on Friday.

Motiwala who recently visited Kabul said the penetration of India and China has limited Pakistan’s option to retain its market share while India subsidises heavily on its exports. He said Pakistan’s trade with Afghanistan fell to $1.2 billion from $2.7bn within in the last two years and the country has been losing even the traditional markets of flour, men and women’s clothes and red meat.

India has been providing goods at subsidised rates to capture the market and are providing air tickets with a 75pc rebate, said Motiwala, adding that Afghans find it easy to travel to India with cheap tickets and free multiple visas without police checks.

Kabul has been the natural market for Pakistani exports but that is changing as cheaper products from China and India flood the country. According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, exports to Afghanistan dropped to $1.271bn in FY17 from $1.437bn in FY16. Exports in the first quarter of 2017-18 stood at $319 million.

Each year thousands of Afghans used to visit Peshawar for medical treatment but now they prefer India due to cheaper treatments and other attractions like concessional treatments. “Medical tourism of Peshawar, which was mainly due to Afghans, is now at zero level; hospitals in Hayatabad are empty,” he continued.

He said Peshawar is the main victim of the declining trade with Afghanistan where people have lost their businesses on a large scale. Out of 200 flour mills, about 100 have been closed down due to a drastic fall in the export of flour to Afghanistan, he added.

He also referred to the decreasing containers’ traffic from Pakistan to Afghanistan. He said 70,000 goods containers were used to pass through between the two countries which has now dropped to just 7,000, reflecting the change of routes for imported goods to Afghans.

Pakistan was the biggest supplier of shalwar qameez suits to Kabul but that too has changed since both India and China are now supplying the readymade suits which are traditionally Pakistani products.

Subsidy means India will lose money and they are hurting their economy and Tax payer money. Lets see how long India can play that game and every things have a limit.

 

[ziaulislam]

I would chose poverty over getting killed at the hands of suicide bombers.

The bharatis who are lecturing about this "economic loss" are the same who start whining about Pakistani singers and actors working in India when 5-6 of their "jawans" die in IOK.

We have lost our kids to these Afghans, their president openly interferes in Pakistan's internal affairs and tries to divide Pakistanis on ethnic lines and that is enough reason to limit our relations with this country as much as possible.

point is.... we must mine the boarder, shoot infiltrators on sight, kick every one of them out..yet we need make sure that we take advantage of their geography dilema and get trade done

learn from the chinese..how do they deal with Indians, Vietnamese, Taiwan and even japan(they had a bloody war with each of these countries)

PS:
i believe in better relationship with afgh but those who hate them to the core