NATO Shifts Supply Lines Away From Pakistan To Central Asia

[Safriz]

The only problem one finds with the US being forced to reconsider its supply routes is that they control the international financial agencies.

Finance secretary Salman Sadiq has said that the foreign debt of the country is reaching Rs9 trillion and the interest of this debt is being paid with the new loans.
Pakistan’s foreign debt reaching Rs9 trillion – The Express Tribune

Now if Pakistan has such a huge foreign debt and it requires new loans just to pay the interest, then it looks like a debt trap.

The manner in which the US operates, it will not be surprising if the US uses it as a tool to extract their pound of flesh.

The silver lining is that the Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has gone to get Saudi assistance to help with the Pakistan National Budget
Pakistani minister to hold key talks with Saudi officials - Arab News

That will go to reduce the financial burden, even though it may not solve the issue of the foreign debt and service it.

Realistically analysing, it is a tricky situation and one wonders if any party including Imran Khan can really browbeat the US into accepting the terms.

Like it or not the Northern route is expensive for the Americans and they will also have to give concessions to the Russians and that is something they would not like to do.

Hence, whatever be the case, the Pakistan route is the best for them and they will use every trick in the book to ensure that it is not disrupted indefinitely.

But then who knows?

Even with 9 trillion debt,most of it is 'sood' as in compound interest,pakistan is under lesser debt than say . UK who has 4.8 trillion pounds or 500 trillion rsof debt.
The resources and money pakistan wss using to provide security to nato,was too much. - good riddence.

 

[ice_man]

well its time for pakistanis to realize that USA can never be our "friend"!! USA is a manipulator! and we should realize the USA bluff! USAcannot win the WoT without pakistan!

 

[Spring Onion]

^Actually you will loose your only leverage against US in this war.

only if what they said was true )))))))))))))))))))

 

[Spring Onion]

Yes it is!! ..you very well can not stop fighting..as it is your war now!!..as soon as you lessen the pressure on Taliban by stopping operations , these guys will be back in your cities and you will back in your 2008 situation.

As long as US is in the region its not our war. its a war imposed on us and dragging our people against us.


the day NATO/US gets out of the region we will have a clear picture and methodology for fighting our own war against militants both internal and external

 

[IND151]

correct decision by us. america already has military base in Kyrgyzstan. now they will have base in Uzbekistan. central Asia is oil reach so no fuel shortages.
but i think the decision to shift Lines Away From Pakistan To Central Asia is not for military purpose alone. remember that america is interested in vast oil sources of central Asia. the Russia to India gas pipeline which will pass through central Asia is being concerned.
so by deploying troops and having bases in central Asia, america is trying to secure her position in central Asia.( read more oil to america.)

 

[53fd]

The US is looking to move its supply routes through Central Asian countries, which will affect the drone campaign adversely. The new supply routes will have to go through central Asian countries, which will be time consuming, costly & very complicated. It will definitely impact the drone strikes campaign in a bad way for the US. If the US still has routes through Pakistan with its drone base in Afghanistan, Pakistan can close the supply routes whenever they want to (like it's done before on numerous occasions) if they feel the US is getting too aggressive with the drone campaign. So it's a lose-lose situation for the US anyways, particularly if it shifts its supply routes through Central Asian countries. This is the reason why the US is disgusted, but can't help but depend on Pakistan's supply routes.