Featured US, five other nations want to link South & Central Asia! Will Pakistan Choose CPEC or "APEC"?

[KediKesenFare3]

What is the US offering Pakistan from a long term strategic perspective to convince it to support 'APEC'?

NSG waiver & path to membership similar to India?
Membership to other strategic groups like the MTCR, Wassenaar Group, Australia Group?
Preferential trade access?
Liberalized visa regime for skilled workers?

Why do you have to make a decision between the two? Why don't take advantage of both projects?

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Why do you have to make a decision between the two? Why don't take advantage of both projects?

I'm not saying Pakistan shouldn't take advantage of both, but since the OP (and statements by various US government officials) have implied that Pakistan should CHOOSE one or the other, my question was phrased for those calling for such a choice.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Sir, currently we might be not in talking terms... We don't know about future.. Just yesterday only Afg to Ind via Pak is opened.... May peace prevail...



Ok... What is final per unit cost that Pak pay to purchase power from company built under CPEC...

Whoever has the the genuine evidence and hard facts regarding this, please present it.

 

[Vanamali]

Whoever has the the genuine evidence and hard facts regarding this, please present it.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacif...ndia-border-for-afghan-transit-trade/1908557#

KARACHI, Pakistan

Pakistan on Monday announced reopening a key border crossing from July 15 to resume exports from Afghanistan to India.

"At the special request of the government of Afghanistan and with a view to facilitating Afghanistan’s transit trade, Pakistan has decided to resume Afghan exports through Wagah border crossing from 15 July 2020, after implementing COVID-19 related protocols, said a statement by the Foreign Ministry.

"With this step, Pakistan has fulfilled its commitments under Pakistan-Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA)," the statement added, referring to a 2010 bilateral trade agreement, which provides Afghan traders access to eastern Wagah border with India, where Afghan goods are offloaded onto Indian trucks.

The agreement, however, does not permit Indian goods to be loaded onto trucks for transit back to Afghanistan.

Pakistan, the statement further said, restored bilateral trade and Afghan transit trade at all border crossing terminals to pre-COVID-19 status.

Pakistan had closed all its borders with neighboring countries in March in an attempt to stem the raging coronavirus pandemic.

Last month, Islamabad reopened its three key trade routes -- southwestern Chaman and northwestern Torkham, and Ghulam Khan border crossings -- for transit trade and exports to Afghanistan.

"Pakistan remains fully committed to further strengthening its bilateral relations with Afghanistan in all areas including trade, and to facilitate Afghanistan’s transit trade under APTTA," the statement concluded.

Pakistan and Afghanistan share 18 crossing points. The most commonly used ones are Torkham and Chaman.

Relations between the two neighbors have been rocky in recent years as both sides accuse each other of supporting and providing sanctuaries to militants.

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

Why can't Pakistan have both?

And yea cpec if we have to choose only 1.

 

[atan651]

Didn't pompeo say BRI was a joke, and now they want to build an "americanised BRI"? Sounds like the biggest joke to me!

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacif...ndia-border-for-afghan-transit-trade/1908557#

KARACHI, Pakistan

Pakistan on Monday announced reopening a key border crossing from July 15 to resume exports from Afghanistan to India.

"At the special request of the government of Afghanistan and with a view to facilitating Afghanistan’s transit trade, Pakistan has decided to resume Afghan exports through Wagah border crossing from 15 July 2020, after implementing COVID-19 related protocols, said a statement by the Foreign Ministry.

"With this step, Pakistan has fulfilled its commitments under Pakistan-Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA)," the statement added, referring to a 2010 bilateral trade agreement, which provides Afghan traders access to eastern Wagah border with India, where Afghan goods are offloaded onto Indian trucks.

The agreement, however, does not permit Indian goods to be loaded onto trucks for transit back to Afghanistan.

Pakistan, the statement further said, restored bilateral trade and Afghan transit trade at all border crossing terminals to pre-COVID-19 status.

Pakistan had closed all its borders with neighboring countries in March in an attempt to stem the raging coronavirus pandemic.

Last month, Islamabad reopened its three key trade routes -- southwestern Chaman and northwestern Torkham, and Ghulam Khan border crossings -- for transit trade and exports to Afghanistan.

"Pakistan remains fully committed to further strengthening its bilateral relations with Afghanistan in all areas including trade, and to facilitate Afghanistan’s transit trade under APTTA," the statement concluded.

Pakistan and Afghanistan share 18 crossing points. The most commonly used ones are Torkham and Chaman.

Relations between the two neighbors have been rocky in recent years as both sides accuse each other of supporting and providing sanctuaries to militants.

Total misinterpretation. I was referring to the unit cost of the CPEC power projects.........

 

[Enigma SIG]

Pakistan has chosen CPEC and remains committed to it. Naysayers especially US / India can go *PC themselves.