India to propose railway link between Kabul and Chittagong

[Kaniska]

well thats what we Pakistani's also want.. To stabilize the region and let every body live and grow..India needs to understand how much useful Pakistan can be for her by providing rail,road links and pipelines from Iran and central asia republics which will let india boost its economy in a real fast way ...And the only obstacle in b/w the india today and a real developed nation is the Kashmir so why not just resolve that issue as per kashmiries desires and move forward?

Pakistan can make india progress real fast and will give her a lot more in terms of cheap energy .

If all the development happens at the expense of national integrity of a nation....How do you think it is feasible to succeed? This is just an BS idea.....

 

[Albatross]

If all the development happens at the expense of national integrity of a nation....How do you think it is feasible to succeed? This is just an BS idea.....

Thats it the ppl like you who has brough us here...Sorry dude m in no mood to raise that whole thing again but simply eventoday kashmir is 80% muslims and in 47 division was based on religion if you remember then how come kashmir is by your side that was a mistake by india which needs to corrected sooner or later n soonest is better for india only...

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

We have plan to place a railway track from China to Gwadar Port City.

Also an agreement was reached between Turkey and Iran. They would give us access to E.U. India can benefit from this also.

Pakistan is locate at strategic cross-road, we chinese want to have rail connection

 

[neehar]

kashmir issue will remain atleast for time being..after fighting 3 wars i dnt think any country would give up easily..inorder for kasmir to get resolved region must remain in peace and it requires economic development.jobs and security so its not as easy as it looks.its a fact that india would grow faster if it has good relations with pakistan because of its geographic reasons..but kashmir issue is not going to vanish just like that ..

 

[JanjaWeed]

Welcome move.. & would benefit everyone involved. Then again... can't see that happening any time soon...thanks to the kinda atmosphere & region we are living in, regional progress & development is least of our concerns..

 

[INDIC]

Yeah if indians persist on kashmir being their integral part not possible but if they really see the mess they are in and find the reasons why not...There is always a new start...

Sorry, Kashmir is more important for us than having a transit corridor to Afghanistan.

Anyway you will first need to bring Pak Railways on tracks and countering the pressure of transportation lobby start freight services of Pak. Few days back, I saw only 80 engines of Pak Railways working.

 

[neehar]

Thats it the ppl like you who has brough us here...Sorry dude m in no mood to raise that whole thing again but simply eventoday kashmir is 80% muslims and in 47 division was based on religion if you remember then how come kashmir is by your side that was a mistake by india which needs to corrected sooner or later n soonest is better for india only...

if at all religion alone is a criterion then whole india must become pakistan because muslims in india are more than in pakistan.like every other state kasmir's ruler was asked the decision for which he chose to remain independent and ur rulers have inflicted insurgencies because of which he signed the accession treaty ..i'm not interested to comment further on the issue this is not the kashmir thread.please stick to the topic..else the whole thread gets derailed

 

[Kaniska]

Thats it the ppl like you who has brough us here...Sorry dude m in no mood to raise that whole thing again but simply eventoday kashmir is 80% muslims and in 47 division was based on religion if you remember then how come kashmir is by your side that was a mistake by india which needs to corrected sooner or later n soonest is better for india only...

Dear friend....I know you are not a typical Pakistan troll posters....But again ....think about perspective from us too...If Muslim majority is a criteria to go for Pakistan...then India will not be India in your logic.because we have around 20% Indian who are supposed to be Muslim.......So mistakes and perceptions are very relative in nature...There is hardly few things in this world which are absolute....So i respect your opinion...and i stand by my opinion and my feelings too....But yes i agree that peace initiative between India and Pakistan could provide reach dividend for two nations....

 

[Icewolf]

if at all religion alone is a criterion then whole india must become pakistan because muslims in india are more than in pakistan

Any stats for that... or said it out of your a.ss?
Pakistan has the 2nd biggest Muslim population after Indonesia.

 

[INDIC]

how about Kabul-Pakistan-China (via Xinjiang-Tibet)-Nepal, then China-Myanmar-BD( Chittagong)

We have Tibet rail ready and plan to extend to Nepal.. so won't be too challenge to connect Kabul to Chittagong ...oops no connection to India

Actually China is interested in rail connectivity with India through Myanmar, part of Trans-Asian Railways. All others you mentioned are just pipe-dreams will take decades to materialize.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

India to propose railway link between Kabul and Chittagong
India will propose on Monday a railway link connecting Kabul in Afghanistan and Chittagong in Bangladesh to ferry passengers and goods, despite heightened tensions with Pakistan because of recent border skirmishes.
“We need to develop wide-ranging and efficient freight and passenger railway links from Kabul to Chittagong, linking Pakistan, India, Nepal and the foothills of Bhutan, along with trunk highways, feeder road systems, and affordable air services,” commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma will say in a prepared speech. “The process of finalizing such regional transportation agreements has remained pending for far too long.”
Mint has seen a copy of the speech Sharma is expected to deliver at a partnership summit in Agra organized by lobby group Confederation of Indian Industry and the commerce ministry.
Sharma has referred to the first transcontinental railroad and the creation of a national highway system that provided the US with quantum leaps to create a vast and integrated market. “This is how it should be in our region as well,” Sharma is expected to say.
Earlier this month, tensions between India and Pakistan rose after two Indian and two Pakistan soldiers were killed along the Line of Control border separating the disputed Kashmir region. A semblance of calm has been restored following talks between military officers of both nations.
However, Pakistan’s trade minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who was to visit India for the partnership summit, cancelled his visit, citing domestic preoccupations. An 11-member trade delegation from Pakistan scheduled to participate in the summit is also not coming.
“We all agree that we have a shared objective of regional economic and commercial engagement in this region and trade and economic interest alone can bring enduring peace, development and prosperity for all our people,” Sharma is likely to say. “We need to find effective mechanisms for achieving these objectives.”
The single market vision that Sharma intends to talk about will depend on seamless connectivity to take advantage of the strengths that lie within, according to Biswajit Dhar, director general of Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a Delhi-based think tank.
“Despite the huge potential that is there in this region, we are allowing fragmentation to pull us down,” Dhar said. “All that is required is to build bridges and this should be done at the earliest.”
“If you allow latent economic forces to unleash their strengths, the vested interests feeding on fragmentation will be reduced to mere spectators. Separatists (those propagating violence) are a small minority, who are keen not to allow benefits of economic integration to spread,” Dhar said. “If the common people can be made partners in economic progress, the pool of people in favour of economic growth and integration will be much larger than the minority of vested interests groups.”
Collaborative work in developing energy-related infrastructure and connectivity grids involving India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan should be given top priority, according to Sharma. Besides reducing cost of energy consumption, the common power grid will “enable us to follow a sustainable development path,” he will say in his prepared speech.
Sharma in the text of his speech holds that the South Asian region has been the slowest to realize the fruits of integration for historical reasons. From a high of 19% trade in 1948 in the region from Kabul to Chittagong, trade within South Asia has dropped to 2%, according to him.
“We have reached a stage that we now need to break out from the shackles of the past and write a bold new essay,” the text of his speech says. “This will have to be based on new ideas which emerge from amongst our nations and pass the litmus test of economic viability.”
Without naming Pakistan, Sharma has noted that Asia has had a troubled past and there are elements in our neighbourhood that have vested interest in maintaining a status quo.
“I would urge the business community present here to carry back a message home that the political leadership effectively counter these forces and under no circumstance allow any seeds of violence or terror to be sown in the country,” Sharma intends to say on Monday.

India to propose railway link between Kabul and Chittagong - Livemint

After all this rubbish in the border now indians have came up with a new theory
And now expects us to fulfill its new demands like nothing has happened. what a dreamy world indians live in.....

 

[INDIC]

Not going to happen. Period.

One of the rarest topics on which we Indians and Pakistanis could agree. It will indeed won't materialize

 

[Umair Nawaz]

Sounds good.

Pakistan should also cooperate with Iran and Turkey to make an Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad railway when situation gets better.

Dude this railway link already exists.
It is Gawader-Quetta-Zahidan_Isfahan_tehran_Ankara_Istabul_Sofia (Bulgaria).

 

[INDIC]

Pakistan is locate at strategic cross-road, we chinese want to have rail connection

What I read, such project will need some 200km of tunnel digging through the rough mountains of Himalayas, it will be indeed a very expensive project for China. That's why China preferred Kyaukphyu(Myanmar) over Gwadar.

 

[neehar]

Any stats for that... or said it out of your a.ss?
Pakistan has the 2nd biggest Muslim population after Indonesia.

India's Muslim Population | Indian Muslims
By 2030, Muslims will make up 16 pc of India's population - Rediff.com News

oh..and those were 2011 stats after 2 yrs now the number would be a lot more...oh and ur right but ur data is out dated it was of 2008
http://www.muslimpopulation.com/asia/Pakistan/Islam in Pakistan.php

now whose @ss was burning