Afghanistan – Pakistan transit trade agreementVaqar Ahmed
said, "Based on the contracts made with the Pakistani government, they should not damage our goods, nor should we, but Pakistan has done so, which has almost reduced our transit with Pakistan by 80 percent."
The Pakistan government on Tuesday announced a 10 percent processing fee on items imported under the “Afghan Transit Trade Agreement,” Pakistani media reported. Dawn cited a notification (SRO1381 of 2023) of the Pakistan Customs Department, saying that the fee, calculated as 10pc ad valorem bas...
4; WB, Analysis of Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (May 2014); The Pakistan Business Council, Afghanistan’s Transit Trade Patterns Pre and Post APTTA (June 2015),https://www.pbc.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/AfghanistansTransitTradePatternsPrePostAPTTA.pdf;see alsohttps://wits.worldbank...
The Afghan side also announced its readiness to open a transit route from Pakistan to Iran’s Khorasan Razavi Province via the Taftan-Chaman-Islam Qala-Mashhad route, which will reduce the route between the two countries from 1500 kilometers (km) to less than 1000 km. ...
Current political tensions have badly affected bilateral and transit trade. Pakistan and Afghanistan signed a transit agreement in the 1960s and revised it in 2010 to allow landlocked Afghanistan to import through Karachi port. Editor: Lifang
Chabahar is the closest and best access point of Iran to the Indian Ocean and Iran intends to turn it into a transit hub for immediate access to markets in the northern part of the Indian Ocean and Central Asia.
Pakistan, as always, will be a major player in Afghanistan’s future because it would prefer to see Afghanistan weak and internally divided rather than unified and strong (if for no other reason than the latter encouraging cross-border irredentist sentiment in Pakistan). Islamicist groups in ...
to Afghanistan should not have come as a surprise to analysts who have worked on Afghanistan on the ground. India’s development partnership with Afghanistan goes back to the 1950s, and till transit trade through Pakistan was not an issue, was Afghanistan’s largest export market for dry fruits...
The country is on the edge and basically, in terms of humanitarian crises that Afghanistan has faced, nothing has changed. If anything, the situation’s worse. At the same time, we have hundreds of thousands of Afghans being pushed out of Iran and Pakistan, forced to return to the country...