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Strategic Chabahar transit deal soon, will bolster trade ties with India: Afghan ambassador

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Article here, excerpts below:

BHOPAL: A trilateral transit deal between Afghanistan, India and Iran will be signed shortly with the strategic Chabahar port project in Iran nearing completion — a giant leap to bypass Pakistan and boost trade ties with landlocked Afghanistan. "The draft agreement is ready, the finer points are being hammered out and we are waiting for a date to sign the tri-nation accord in Tehran. This alternative route will directly connect India with Afghanistan without hindrance. Our trade volume will catapult from current $700mn to trillions of dollars," said Afghanistan ambassador to India, Shaida Mohammad Abdali in an exclusive interview to TOI.

Last year, India announced $100mn investment in Chabahar, which is just 72 km from Pakistan's Gwadar port and 1000 km closer than Karachi port, which handles Afghanistan's imports. The deal will effectively shut out India's dependence on Pakistan, which disallows overland transit trade to Afghanistan. Abdali, who was in Bhopal on a three-day visit, also announced visa-on-arrival for Indians who want to do business in Afghanistan.
 
"$700mn to trillions of dollars" Nothing but dreams and aspirations. Even if Afghanistan was to exploit it's resources to the fullest and sell them to India at the highest price possible, the total trade volume still wouldn't even reach 10 billion, let alone trillions.
 
India has no money to invest in Chahbahar in its current budget. :D
These things wouldn't be explicitly declared in any public budget presentation, the GoI has sufficient funds for such things especially now the economy is growing at some serious pace.

Article here, excerpts below:

BHOPAL: A trilateral transit deal between Afghanistan, India and Iran will be signed shortly with the strategic Chabahar port project in Iran nearing completion — a giant leap to bypass Pakistan and boost trade ties with landlocked Afghanistan. "The draft agreement is ready, the finer points are being hammered out and we are waiting for a date to sign the tri-nation accord in Tehran. This alternative route will directly connect India with Afghanistan without hindrance. Our trade volume will catapult from current $700mn to trillions of dollars," said Afghanistan ambassador to India, Shaida Mohammad Abdali in an exclusive interview to TOI.

Last year, India announced $100mn investment in Chabahar, which is just 72 km from Pakistan's Gwadar port and 1000 km closer than Karachi port, which handles Afghanistan's imports. The deal will effectively shut out India's dependence on Pakistan, which disallows overland transit trade to Afghanistan. Abdali, who was in Bhopal on a three-day visit, also announced visa-on-arrival for Indians who want to do business in Afghanistan.
A good step for India if it wants to cut out any dependancy on Pakistan vis a vis serving its interests in Afghanistan but it remains to be seen whether Chabar will be a true success story, it is still early days but a clever initiative nonetheless.

A great shame the US/NATO forces couldn't look beyond their noses and put their (relatively) trivial issues with Iran to one side and support its mission in Afghanistan through this port. This would have transformed the port, relevant infrastructure in the region and would have been tremendously fruitful for India. Ah well, another lesson in the West's utterly pathetic strategic planning.
 
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It seems to me that on-going hostilities in Yemen have made Iran more pliable for early execution of this project even at the cost of few minor concessions.

I hope Iran comes out of sanctions and diplomatic isolation asap.
 
Article here, excerpts below:

BHOPAL: A trilateral transit deal between Afghanistan, India and Iran will be signed shortly with the strategic Chabahar port project in Iran nearing completion — a giant leap to bypass Pakistan and boost trade ties with landlocked Afghanistan.

Our trade volume will catapult from current $700mn to trillions of dollars," said Afghanistan ambassador to India, Shaida Mohammad Abdali in an exclusive interview to TOI.

Good for India and Afghanistan as they'll be actually doing the trade. Iran is still under sanctions so it can use the money. But its really India who'll benefit from this as Afghanistan has no economy or real infrastructure. The interesting part would be to see how the Chinese may try to counter this. This doesn't have a whole lot of impact on Pakistan as whether Afghanistan uses Gawader or not, its not a part of the fraction. The Chinese consumers that Gawader will be serving, are over 400 million people, or twice the size of the Pakistani population.

As far as "trillions of dollars" is concerned, Afghanistan doesn't have an economy worth trillions of dollars, nor is their population the size to get to "trillions of dollars". A country with 25-30 million population can get rich quicker because there are much less people to feed, but that not "trillions of dollars" big economy.
 
India has no money to invest in Chahbahar in its current budget. :D


Project like this wont mention in our budget .
Another example is One Rank One Pension.Govt already sanctioned funds for it even before the budget.So that is not a part of our 40billion $ defence budget.

Let them flourish through that trade Sir,After all it is our responsibility to lift that war torn nation.Dont we ??
Even few billion profit for them will be good .
"$700mn to trillions of dollars" Nothing but dreams and aspirations. Even if Afghanistan was to exploit it's resources to the fullest and sell them to India at the highest price possible, the total trade volume still wouldn't even reach 10 billion, let alone trillions.

Chinese will also use Chabhar facility.This is business dude.Here Profit is the only God.
Good for India and Afghanistan as they'll be actually doing the trade. Iran is still under sanctions so it can use the money. But its really India who'll benefit from this as Afghanistan has no economy or real infrastructure. The interesting part would be to see how the Chinese may try to counter this. This doesn't have a whole lot of impact on Pakistan as whether Afghanistan uses Gawader or not, its not a part of the fraction. The Chinese consumers that Gawader will be serving, are over 400 million people, or twice the size of the Pakistani population.

As far as "trillions of dollars" is concerned, Afghanistan doesn't have an economy worth trillions of dollars, nor is their population the size to get to "trillions of dollars". A country with 25-30 million population can get rich quicker because there are much less people to feed, but that not "trillions of dollars" big economy.
 
Chinese will also use Chabhar facility.This is business dude.Here Profit is the only God.

Why would the Chinese use this facility unless they are doing direct trade with China (meaning buying and selling)? It's like saying the US will start to use Mexican ports. That's a crazy idea and out of touch with reality.

The Chinese want to grow to be a super power, they are creating a "string of pearls" all around India, Europe, Japan and Asia for a reason, that is for future competition and to be able to gain military advantage. That won't mean they won't do trade with India, but to expect them to do it at the cost of Pakistan is a foolish idea. They call Pakistan their Israel, and the US will NEVER do anything at the cost of Israel. Hope this makes sense.

In the Chinese circle of trust, there is ONLY one country and its called Pakistan. Everyone else, has a lower tier. This is the difference between the rest of the world and India. In India, money is an actual God and you'll cut anyone or everyone for it.

The rest of the world, obviously wants money, but keeps its strategic relations intact. There is a reason why the French decided to work with Pakistan on avionics, engines and missiles for its JFT platform (initially,they had said no to Pakistan to show India loyalty, which crapped in their face on Rafale). Similarly, there is ALSO a reason why Russia decided to sell its weapons to Pakistan. Primary reason being, they've seen and understood Indian mentality, money is everything, there is no importance to any relationship, so they are dealing with you in the same manner. Tell me ONE country who'd call out India to defend them or who India would call out for a coalition. The mindset in India doesn't have that, its all about India, not who they cut, pick or throw away. Wrong strategy and it will never work.
 
It seems to me that on-going hostilities in Yemen have made Iran more pliable for early execution of this project even at the cost of few minor concessions.

I hope Iran comes out of sanctions and diplomatic isolation asap.

These are all dreams that india will go to that higher level cooperation with Iran.

India is a saudi ally. both pak+india are saudi run countries. Pak is openly while india is not.

india has more interest in chahbahar than lahore to kabul ? ? ? not at all. they are just dreams.

India has also constructed the backup pipeline to transfer for oil+gas to pak from gurjat to amritsar to ensure continuity to supplies and trade to pak. on only amristsar lahore sector is to be constructed in months when neded.
 
These are all dreams that india will go to that higher level cooperation with Iran.

India is a saudi ally. both pak+india are saudi run countries. Pak is openly while india is not.

india has more interest in chahbahar than lahore to kabul ? ? ? not at all. they are just dreams.

India has also constructed the backup pipeline to transfer for oil+gas to pak from gurjat to amritsar to ensure continuity to supplies and trade to pak. on only amristsar lahore sector is to be constructed in months when neded.

India is run by Saudi ?

:crazy:
 

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