Pakistan willing to open Afghan land route for India: US envoy

[Rollno21]

Welcome news for pak, they can get road toll tax . Which can go for dam fund .

Not only that imagine they getting route through the strategic location of afghanistan to other countries

 

[SMC]

Welcome news for pak, they can get road toll tax . Which can go for dam fund .

Perhaps Pakistan could use the land route as leverage for bharat to stop supporting terrorist groups in Pakistan. Ergo, if bharat stops supporting terrorism, only then Pakistan will open the land routes.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

WASHINGTON: Pakistan approached Afghanistan earlier this year, indicating its willingness to discuss the resumption of trade between Afghanistan and India through the Pakistani land route, says a senior US diplomat.

In an interview to India’s Economic Times newspaper, Ambassador John Bass said that reopening land routes between South and Central Asia will benefit all countries in the region.

Pakistan does not allow India to use the land route for trading with Afghanistan, arguing that technical and strategic issues connected to transit trade should be resolved first.

“A couple of months ago, for the first time the Pakistani government expressed a willingness to start talks with its Afghan counterparts for parameters to enabling trade between India and Afghanistan through Pakistan,” Mr Bass said.

The US ambassador to Afghanistan also said that Indian firms were gradually increasing their investments in Afghanistan. Last year’s trade show in Delhi led to $27 million of investments at the event itself, and another $200 million of “prospective” investments from Indian companies, much of which had materialised, he added.

Ambassador Bass told the Indian newspaper that a political settlement in Afghanistan was in Pakistan’s long-term interest. “Increased trade in both directions, increased connectivity through central and south Asia through Afghanistan — those are all missed opportunities if Pakistan has its sole focus on perpetuating the status quo,” he said.

The US envoy said that India raised the issue of US sanctions on Iran when US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis visited New Delhi earlier this month for Two-plus-Two talks.

The Indians were particularly interested in knowing how the sanctions would impact Chabahar port, which was built in Iran with Indian assistance for connecting India with Central Asia through Afghanistan.

The Indian government conveyed its perspectives “on the importance of Chabahar as a means to expand bilateral trade and help improve Afghanistan’s connectivity with South Asia,” he said.

“We are processing and evaluating how best to reimpose sanctions on Iran, with the Iranian regime’s malevolent behaviour and its activities in destabilising its neighbours,” Ambassador Bass said.

“My government is still thinking through how Chabahar factors in the reimposition of the toughest sanctions that we believe need to be put in place to hold the Iranian government accountable for its action.”

He said the US administration was reviewing the sanctions to see how to deal with such issues, without hurting the US objective of persuading Iran to change its policies.

Ambassador Bass said the US realised that the conflict in Afghanistan could not be resolved through military means alone. “No one in the US government is saying at this point that we expect this conflict to end with a military victory. We believe that this conflict will end with a political settlement,” he said.

Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2018
https://www.dawn.com/news/1433197/pakistan-willing-to-open-afghan-land-route-for-india-us-envoy

Please note, the operative words being, "willing to". We all know in reality that this will never actually happen.

 

[Khanate]

Afghanistan import from Pakistan reduced recently ,a good percentage of Pakistani export go to Afghanistan,Pakistan will lose afghan market any way ,by allowing land route Pakistan can get transit fee at least ,and most important thing will be Pakistan will get access to other countries through the strategic location of afghanistan ,which will actually benefit CPEC

Indiot.

Trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan is much larger than India. In fact, Afghanistan's exports to Pakistan jumped 118% recently.

 

[Rollno21]

Indiot.

Trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan increased 118%.

When

Indiot.

Trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan is much larger than India. In fact, Afghanistan's exports to Pakistan jumped 118% recently.

Good you edited you post.
https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/trib...-trade-pakistan-afghanistan-dropped-2b/?amp=1
Your bilaternal trade is going down year on year

 

[RaGotimaar]

Good news. Afghanistan can now send it's hashish charas easily to India. They have good charas rates

 

[KAMDEV]

Good news. Afghanistan can now send it's hashish charas easily to India. They have good charas rates

Wholesale mandi is in Pakistan, PIA crew transport it to Europe.

 

[khansaheeb]

Welcome news for pak, they can get road toll tax . Which can go for dam fund .

We don't need Indian road tax thank you very much. India can take the route where the sun doesn't shine.

 

[KAMDEV]

We don't need Indian road tax thank you very much. India can take the route where the sun doesn't shine.

Apki marji.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

This is fake news.

 

[HRK]

kon BC agree hoa tha

Pakistan approached Afghanistan earlier this year

A couple of months ago, for the first time the Pakistani government expressed a willingness to start talks with its Afghan counterparts for parameters to enabling trade between India and Afghanistan through Pakistan,” Mr Bass said.

clearly NS government during its last days

 

[PakSword]

clearly NS government during its last days

Seems fake farts from US official as 2 months back, it was not even PMLN's government, and we know that caretaker setup doesn't touch the policy matters.

 

[Lincoln]

Afghanistan import from Pakistan reduced recently ,a good percentage of Pakistani export go to Afghanistan,Pakistan will lose afghan market any way ,by allowing land route Pakistan can get transit fee at least ,and most important thing will be Pakistan will get access to other countries through the strategic location of afghanistan ,which will actually benefit CPEC

Imports by Afghanistan at this point are not done as a generosity or to increase diplomatic ties, they are done out of need and requirement. They better be able to find alternatives for the imports elsewhere, there's a reason they import from Pakistan.

 

[New World]

clearly NS government during its last days

seems desperate move by nooni toons to get US support in winning election.

 

[maximuswarrior]

Unless this is confirmed by the government, the Americans are lying as usual.