Articles
Importance of Chabahar and Gawadar Ports for the Region
A Gwadar and Chabahar port in Pakistan and Iran closes the regional countries particularly India and China to Middle East’s energy. Furthermore; Chabahar port connects the India to Afghanistan and Central Asian markets. According to Geo political and Geo Economic perspectives, these ports are so important because of their strategic locations in the world. Given the competitive and divergent views of the countries in the region, including India-China and India-Pakistan against each other, the result of growth and development of these ports will increase rivalry in the region
Impacts of Tariffs on Afghanistan-Pakistan Trade Relations
Afghanistan-Pakistan trade relations have a long history. Over the past three decades, especially since 2006, these relations have improved and expanded tremendously and in year 2013 the bilateral trade volume reached to 2.5 billion US dollar. But after 2014 because of consistent and continued inconveniences and hurdles from Pakistani side to Afghan traders and goods lead to a steady decline in trade and the trade figures drop down to 1464 million USD in year 2018, further; instead of Pakistan the trade transactions with Iran and some Central Asian countries are increasing day by day. Despite other problems the recent increase in tariffs or custom-duty will further weaken trade relations between the two countries.