New Transit Trade Agreement

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New Transit Trade Agreement

Signing the New Transit Trade Agreement with Afghanistan by the grace of America is nothing more than granting India & her Ally Afghanistan legitimization and facilitation in re: underway terrorism in the whole region and so to make them able to wreak more havoc more easily & unabatedly in Pakistan & in the region.
This is not first time that we provided every facility to Hindus with a hope that they will become non-hostile towards the non-hindus in the region. But one must not ignore history. If Mogul Emperor, Akbar couldn’t do that no one else will do that.
We have no problem but our incompetent & corrupt leadership; they are religious lot or secular pack.
We become very easy virtue when it comes to national greater interest. One can change his neighbor but cannot his nature. And so Hindus are no exception.
They are like snakes; they will bite you, regardless of your behavior. If you can’t make one friend leave him as enemy, for you would be able at least to safeguard yourself. If you will bring up an ailing snake it will bite you with full force on getting recovery. We are doing so with all our foes from the day one.
They are talking of cold start & we are begging for hot pursuit of dialogue for resolving the core issues of Kashmir & others and believe they will yield, eh.

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Um, link? And coherency?

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He’s gone, Jim.

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Afghanistan and Pakistan just signed a transit agreement. The OP is apparently opposed to it, as are these Pakistani businessmen:

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The really weird part is the agreement doesn’t allow India to transport anything through Pakistan. I don’t understand how this agreement is any any way advantageous to my (snake-) people.

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:confused: They’re allies?

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Sort of. India has been meddling in Afghanistan for a while (as has Pakistan), and has provided lots of economic and other support to its non-Islamist governments, since having a friendly country the other side of its perpetual enemy is useful. Characterizing the current relationship as an alliance is a bit weird, though.

The relationship obviously cooled significantly after the Taliban took power, but perked up again after the new government was installed.

Afghanistan is gradually becoming more and more strategically important in terms of access to the less shitty part of Central Asia (ie., the various oil-rich Soviet satellites which are increasingly developing their drilling and refining capacities). For India, that’s an especially big deal, because like China it’s about to need an awful lot more oil.