The shipment contained 570 tons of export goods carried by 23 vehicles.
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan
February 24, 2019
Afghanistan has sent its first exports shipment to India through Iran’s strategic Chabahar Port.
The port on the Indian Ocean, inaugurated in 2017, has been built largely by India and will provide a key supply route for Afghanistan while allowing India to bypass rival Pakistan to trade with Central Asia.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who attended a special ceremony on February 24 in the western city of Zaranj to mark the event, said the exports through Chabahar Port would connect “hundreds of villages and millions of” Afghans to the outside world.
The shipment contained 570 tons of export goods carried by 23 vehicles.
Most of Afghanistan’s imports and exports go through Pakistan, which Kabul accuses of harboring the Afghan Taliban.
The U.S. State Department in November exempted the Chabahar Port project from its sanctions on Iran in recognition of its importance to landlocked Afghanistan.
The effort to build up Afghanistan’s economy is also aimed at reducing Kabul’s dependence on foreign aid and putting a major dent in the illicit opium trade that has been a major source of revenue for the Taliban insurgency.
New Delhi has poured $2 billion into development in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led overthrow of the Taliban’s government.
Copyright (c) 2019. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.
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SUPPOSEDLY WEIRD
COMMERCIAL REROUTING, COULD
POSSIBLY HELP THE
PEOPLE
OF
AFGHANISTAN ?????
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sick
and
full it !
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GET OUT
OF
*AFGHANISTAN !
You are inciting
India snd Pakistan
underlings
to
get at each other’s throat while
forcefully
devising and landing
low class
dysfunctional designs
on
*Afghanistan.
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You cowards
are
stupid and ugly as well !
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CRIMINAL PERPETRATORS,
NEVER MEANT IT WELL FOR THE
GREAT *PEOPLE
OV
AFGHANISTAN
*ONCE
AGAIN; GET OUT
OF
*AFGHANISTAN !!!!!
Stop; your childish; but yet, extremely
deadly
games !
*YOU, UGLY COWARDS, HAVE CAUSED
THE
KILLINGS
OF
OVER
HUNDRED THOUSANS
OF
YOUNG PEOPLE
OF
AFGHANISTAN, JUST IN THE LAST
THREE YEARS ALONE- IT IS ALL REPORTED
BY
YOUR INSTALLED
GOOFY
STOOGES.
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