He walked away with inking 12 agreements including agreement to develop strategically important Chabahar port which will rival Gwadar port in future.
This agreement will enable India to reach out north south corridor bypassing Pakistan and also reach out to Afghanistan. Afghanistan will also greatly benefit from this development.
Its ironic when we consider afghan government's plea to use Pakistan's trade routes to transfer products to Afghanistan but Pakistan army bosses rejected any such adventure because it could have benefited India.
Although it may have been beneficial for India, but more so in terms of Pakistan's ability to maneuver strategic trade ties to influence good relations on all outstanding issues because after-all its always a tussle of economic interests which might not have been overlooked by India or Afghanistan plus it could have generated the feeling of mutual trust among Afghanistan and Pakistan.
India is investing in dams, roads and bridges while Pakistan is roping the old allies Taliban to the table which has been unreasonable on most occasion. This policy is unsuccessful and a recipe for disaster as it has been in the past. We cant sell dial up internet in fiber optics market for long and ask whats wrong with out product. Our product is simply not good enough!
Although USA has its own burden of failures sharing with NATO but the argument of Pakistan providing safe havens to Taliban and using them as strategic assets have turned all the burden on Pakistan although it might not be totally true. The reason for making a scapegoat out of Pakistan is not entirely on outsiders as our own think tanks are enough to make one with their unreasonable policies in the region.
Afghan president Ashraf ghani was favoring Pakistan over other neighbors but it didn't took long we handed him over in the lap of Modi.
One more ridiculous and unfortunate state of affairs is the lack of coordination in civil military relations. Angoor adda was handed over to afghans by the army in the name of fostering brotherly relations with neighbor country. Although cant term it a bad step but much worse is that interior minister is totally unaware of the incident. The afghans consequently closed the crossing and demanded 10 km inside Pakistan territory which led to a standoff recently.
Source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1261473/strategic-liabilities
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