Tajikistan to join Pakistan road link bypassing Afghanistan

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

Naswar walay bhai you don't need to worry as post of chai wala on pdf will not influence the policy makers - anyway you need leader like Putin to take decisions to ensure long term strategic interest of the country, current lot of puss!es can't do that.

you need to be powerful economy to do that. Very aren't.

 

[Panther 57]

Its not the issue of pak traders ... its the issue of prevalent legal and regulatory requirements ... its so complicated and full of so many and doing business in Pakistan is too tough ...

rules have been influenced by one set of people. It takes two to complete the equation

 

[The Accountant]

rules have been influenced by one set of people. It takes two to complete the equation

Agreed ... The reason of us behaving like this there is no investment in nation building in past hald century ... There is qutation saying ...

If you want return in 1 year plant rice ...
If you want return in 10 years plant trees ...
If you want return in 100 years educates your children ...

Due to early death of our leaders like Quaid-e-azam and Liaquat Ali Khan we loose our focus on education and character building of our people ... If we start now only then we will start to get benefits after 2 to 3 decades but in democracy no government has time to think beyond horizon of 2 to 3 years so they are all into planting rice with no vision ...

 

[asq]

Tajikistan or Turkmenistan barely has any trade with South Asia or middle 90% of their trade is with Russia, CIS & China.
So they will have no interest in CPEC.

Which is why there is no such report other than anonymous claims in Pakistan media.

Usually Indian, trying to put doubt in the minds of Pakistanis, but that will not work, a warm water close by route for Tajikistan will be fantastic, their route to the sea will be shortened by several days and that will effect the pocket Book, so I say to Tajiks, go for it, it will be very beneficial for you.

 

[Tps43]

lol if we care about afghans!

 

[MultaniGuy]

Tajikistan to join Pakistan road link bypassing Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: While Kabul is reluctant to finalise a transit trade agreement with Islamabad, Tajikistan is poised to join a separate initiative which will connect Pakistan to Central Asia, bypassing Afghanistan entirely.

Officials told The Express Tribune that Tajikistan’s request for inclusion into the Quadrilateral Traffic in Transit Agreement (QTTA) — a deal between China, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan for facilitating transit traffic and trade — has been approved. The Central Asian state will now become a formal participant once its parliament approves the move, they said.
Inclusion in QTTA — which was signed in Islamabad in 1995 — will grant landlocked Tajikistan access to Pakistan’s ports, including Gwadar, without having to depend on Afghanistan. It will provide safe passage to traders from both Pakistan and Tajikistan. Trade between the two countries has risen steadily from $15 million in 2011 to $90 million in 2016, and Tajikistan wants to bring the volume up to $500 million.
Up till now, Pakistani traders have had to rely on the land route through Afghanistan to access Tajikistan and other Central Asian States. Pakistan and Afghanistan had been negotiating a transit trade agreement but Kabul’s insistence that India be included in the arrangement led to a deadlock in discussions. Due to tensions with India over unrest in Occupied Kashmir and Delhi’s attempts to implicate Islamabad in rebel attacks on military installations, Pakistan could not accommodate Kabul’s demand. But while Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani threatened to cut off Pakistan’s access to Central Asia if it did not include India in the transit deal, China revived QTTA to further tap the potential of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, officials said. QTTA provides Pakistan a gateway to Central Asia by using the Karakoram Highway — which links Gilgit-Baltistan to China’s Xinjiang region — as a transit corridor.
With Pakistan’s exports declining by over $4 billion over the last few years, it has looked to tap the potential of Central Asian and Russian markets. Kyrgyzstan has offered a route to Russia to Pakistani traders. At the same time, Pakistani ports provide landlocked Central Asian states the closest maritime facilities for trade. Currently, they rely on seaports in China, Turkey, Iran, Russia and the Baltic States.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 24th, 2017.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1337274/tajikistan-join-pakistan-road-link-bypassing-afghanistan/

Good. It will teach the Afghanistanis a lesson.
They should better listen to us.
Wise decision by the Tajikistanis to join CPEC.

 

[Menace2Society]

A final nail in the coffin over any leverage external players had with Pakistan over trade with CARs.

 

[MultaniGuy]

A final nail in the coffin over any leverage external players had with Pakistan over trade with CARs.

Good point

 

[abrar khan]

This will never work, the amount of transit fees and excessive delivery time, going through multiple nations and tough terrains, is just a dream land.

Afghan holds the card to CPEC future being beyond just China.

Good decision by GOP considering the facts,
1- A hostile govt. in Afghanistan.
2- insecure root for transportation of goods, Kabul govt cannot ensure security outside the Kabul city,
3- Transit roads and links in AFG are not up to the standards if compare to the CEPEC and QTTA root.

 

[Bhupendra Singh_Cyan]

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It would be an act of war, Pakistan isn't fool enough to do this

 

[Hussain Farooqui]

Afghanistan is not blameworthy for any wrongdoings. It is under the encroachment of foreign usurpers. It deserves our sympathy rather than condemnation. The foreign usurpers like America and Bharat are responsible for all the wrongdoings committed in the name of Afghanistan. Afghans are our brethren and their country is our brother country. The responsibility of all the problems in real terms lie on the shoulders of America and Bharat.

 

[Samlee]

Tajikistan or Turkmenistan barely has any trade with South Asia or middle 90% of their trade is with Russia, CIS & China.
So they will have no interest in CPEC.

Which is why there is no such report other than anonymous claims in Pakistan media.

Wow The "Randi Rona" Just Never Stops

 

[My-Analogous]

Tajikistan to join Pakistan road link bypassing Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: While Kabul is reluctant to finalise a transit trade agreement with Islamabad, Tajikistan is poised to join a separate initiative which will connect Pakistan to Central Asia, bypassing Afghanistan entirely.

Officials told The Express Tribune that Tajikistan’s request for inclusion into the Quadrilateral Traffic in Transit Agreement (QTTA) — a deal between China, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan for facilitating transit traffic and trade — has been approved. The Central Asian state will now become a formal participant once its parliament approves the move, they said.
Inclusion in QTTA — which was signed in Islamabad in 1995 — will grant landlocked Tajikistan access to Pakistan’s ports, including Gwadar, without having to depend on Afghanistan. It will provide safe passage to traders from both Pakistan and Tajikistan. Trade between the two countries has risen steadily from $15 million in 2011 to $90 million in 2016, and Tajikistan wants to bring the volume up to $500 million.
Up till now, Pakistani traders have had to rely on the land route through Afghanistan to access Tajikistan and other Central Asian States. Pakistan and Afghanistan had been negotiating a transit trade agreement but Kabul’s insistence that India be included in the arrangement led to a deadlock in discussions. Due to tensions with India over unrest in Occupied Kashmir and Delhi’s attempts to implicate Islamabad in rebel attacks on military installations, Pakistan could not accommodate Kabul’s demand. But while Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani threatened to cut off Pakistan’s access to Central Asia if it did not include India in the transit deal, China revived QTTA to further tap the potential of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, officials said. QTTA provides Pakistan a gateway to Central Asia by using the Karakoram Highway — which links Gilgit-Baltistan to China’s Xinjiang region — as a transit corridor.
With Pakistan’s exports declining by over $4 billion over the last few years, it has looked to tap the potential of Central Asian and Russian markets. Kyrgyzstan has offered a route to Russia to Pakistani traders. At the same time, Pakistani ports provide landlocked Central Asian states the closest maritime facilities for trade. Currently, they rely on seaports in China, Turkey, Iran, Russia and the Baltic States.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 24th, 2017.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1337274/tajikistan-join-pakistan-road-link-bypassing-afghanistan/

It is time to close Afghan border because they try to hurts us and why we are still giving them transit facilities?

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Now that President Trump is drastically cutting foreign aid, let's see how long these NA thugs can survive!!!

 

[asq]

lol if we care about afghans!

We have bent over backward to help Afghans, but they always tab us in back and dance to the tune of our arch enemy, till they stop that we should not be worried about them, we have born their burden for more than 40 years.

We been gentle with them, brotherly with them and they side with idol worshippers. Being Muslims, it is very strange.