Pakistan must allow Afghanistan direct trade access to India through Wagah: Ghani

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Pakistan must allow Afghanistan direct trade access to India through Wagah: Ghani
Published: April 30, 2015
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. PHOTO: REUTERS

Demanding “sovereign equality”, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Pakistan must allow his country direct access to India through Wagah border in Lahore.

At present, Pakistan allows Afghan trucks carrying goods meant for India only up to its last checkpoint at Wagah and not to the Indian checkpoint at Attari which is just less than a kilometer away.

Ghani, in an exclusive interview to Indian newspaperThe Hindu, warned that if the deadlock continues, Afghanistan will not provide equal transit access to Central Asia for Pakistani trucks.

Read: Indian, Afghan leaders pledge to fight militants, build trade

The Afghan president, who is in India on his first state visit, said Pakistan must accept the “national treatment” clause agreed to in the Afghanistan Pakistan Transit and Trade Agreement (APTTA), signed in 2011, which gives each country equal access up to the national boundaries of both.

On Tuesday, Ghani met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called for regional cooperation to defeat violent extremist groups.

Islamic State

The Afghan president said the Islamic State has challenged countries from “India to Russia” and that the regional countries must united to end the menace.

Ghani said the IS threat was different from that posed by groups such as the Taliban, which wanted to “overthrow the state”.

“Now the prize is not the state, it is destruction. Our territory is being made the battleground. Our people are being killed brutally to show a spectacle. We all need to mobilise as a region,” he said.

He, however, denied downplaying threat from groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, saying the “drivers have changed”.



Pakistan must allow Afghanistan direct trade access to India through Wagah: Ghani - The Express Tribune

 

[Pomegranate]

Pakistan would always preserve its own interests ..........

 

[Providence]

afganisthan should install a division of army on waga border !

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

Lets solve Kashmir if you want access to centeral Asia... or try your luck to far east thru chicken neck rout.

 

[Bang Galore]

Lets solve Kashmir if you want access to centeral Asia... or try your luck to far east thru chicken neck rout.

That's a funny offer. This is Afghanistan asking you to give it access to India if you want access to central asia. Pakistan has no ability to give access to central asia on its own, it's merely one of the countries. Without Afghanistan, Pakistan itself has no access to central asia.

Btw, get rid of this silly notion in your head that anyone in India will negotiate on Kashmir to get access to central asia. That will never happen,

 

[OrionHunter]

Yep! The only way to do that would be to build a flyover across Pakistan 20 miles high!!

 

[Pomegranate]

That's a funny offer. This is Afghanistan asking you to give it access to India if you want access to central asia. Pakistan has no ability to give access to central asia on its own, it's merely one of the countries. Without Afghanistan, Pakistan itself has no access to central asia.

Btw, get rid of this silly notion in your head that anyone in India will negotiate on Kashmir to get access to central asia. That will never happen,

Afghanistan is a land locked country and it can never afford to stop pakistan access to the central asia we can do more damage to them than they can do to us .......... So dont you worry ...........

 

[Max]

Pakistan must allow Afghanistan direct trade access to India through Wagah: Ghani - The Express Tribune

Demanding “sovereign equality”, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Pakistan must allow his country direct access to India through Wagah border in Lahore.

At present, Pakistan allows Afghan trucks carrying goods meant for India only up to its last checkpoint at Wagah and not to the Indian checkpoint at Attari which is just less than a kilometer away.

Ghani, in an exclusive interview to Indian newspaperThe Hindu, warned that if the deadlock continues, Afghanistan will not provide equal transit access to Central Asia for Pakistani trucks.

Read: Indian, Afghan leaders pledge to fight militants, build trade

The Afghan president, who is in India on his first state visit, said Pakistan must accept the “national treatment” clause agreed to in the Afghanistan Pakistan Transit and Trade Agreement (APTTA), signed in 2011, which gives each country equal access up to the national boundaries of both.

On Tuesday, Ghani met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called for regional cooperation to defeat violent extremist groups.

Islamic State

The Afghan president said the Islamic State has challenged countries from “India to Russia” and that the regional countries must united to end the menace.

Ghani said the IS threat was different from that posed by groups such as the Taliban, which wanted to “overthrow the state”.

“Now the prize is not the state, it is destruction. Our territory is being made the battleground. Our people are being killed brutally to show a spectacle. We all need to mobilise as a region,” he said.

He, however, denied downplaying threat from groups such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, saying the “drivers have changed”.

 

[ravi kiran]

Sure we want direct link with Afghanistan but we can manage it through Chabar port also. so no need to give too much importance to people who are against development of region.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Sure we want direct link with Afghanistan but we can manage it through Chabar port also. so no need to give too much importance to people who are against development of region.

Than go ahead.. Whose stopping you? Just stop whining.

Yep! The only way to do that would be to build a flyover across Pakistan 20 miles high!!

In the air? tht is also Pakistani air space .. So no hope.

 

[ravi kiran]

Do go ahead.. Whose stopping you? N stop whining.

not whining but its sad to see some people still living in Middle age mentality.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

not whining but its sad to see some people still living in Middle age mentality.

You are a good example your moronic rants in the Nepal AID threads are a good example.. As for giving access it is already there but we wouldn't allow Indian trucks on our roads .. National interests come first.

 

[Path-Finder]

Yes lets allow them this trade what a f**king joke . Pakistan should ask for trade via india to Bangladesh but no it will never happen. yet we must allow it.

 

[Kao Boy]

Soon Pakistan will be dropped from SAARC and it will happen with majority of votes...

 

[ravi kiran]

You are a good example your moronic rants in the Nepal AID threads are a good example.. As for giving access it is already there but we wouldn't allow Indian trucks on our roads .. National interests come first.

Cant you people debate without abusing anyone?
what national Interest? what is harm in allowing Indian trucks on Pakistan soil?