Union of Asia – Akin to Europe is what we must strive for.
The Pakistan – China rail and road link will be a foundation for a wider integrated Central Asia to the Arabian Sea.
As reported on Rupee News earlier:
ISLAMABAD (APP) – Kyrgyzstan is working on possibility to establish direct road links with Pakistan through Karakoram Highway to further improve bilateral trade and economic relations between the two countries.
Negotiations to this regard are in process with China, said Bektur Asanov, Ambassador of Kyrgyz Republic during his visit to ICCI. He expressed the hope that with the development of direct communication channels, bilateral trade will increase by 10 times between Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Pakistan Tajikistan Highway: Karakoram highway linked to Tajikistan via Chitral. Kyrgyzstan is working on possibility to establish direct road links with Pakistan through Karakoram Highway to further improve bilateral trade and economic relations between the two countries.
He said Pakistani textile products were very popular in Kyrgyz Republic and called upon Pakistani businessmen to look for setting up textile industries in Kyrgyzstan .
He said Kyrgyzstan has now shifted its focus from Western world to South Asia as it perceives for itself great business and trade potential in this region.
He said that in a bid to promote two-way trade, an exhibition dedicated to Pakistani products is being arranged in Bishkek in January and invited Pakistani businessmen to ensure their maximum participation in that exhibition.
The concept of this exhibition is to attract attention of Kyrgyz customers to the high quality and vast variety Pakistani products, he added.
Zahid Maqbool, President ICCI said that although Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan enjoy friendly and cordial relations and are tied together under the umbrella of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), but the business and economic relations between the two countries do not correspond to their respective potentials
The dormant ECO has come live with a train running from Islamabad to Istanbul via Zahidan and Tehran. The massive rail expansion program being carried on by the Pakistan Railways will ensure that trains run from Pakistan to Turkey to the West, and from Pakistan to the North in Tajikistan. Imagine hooking up to the Orient Express and then going to Europe–all on a luxury train.
The new Train plans include hooking up Gwader to Iran via Quetta and other routes. China is already planning a train route from X to Gwader which will run parallel to the Karakorum Highway.
Russia is funding massive train and energy projects in Tajikistan, Afghanistan & Pakistan. The indications are that Russia has stepped into the vacuum created by the never ending American war in Afghanistan and Moscow is now reaching out to Pakistan. While the Western media and part of the Pakistani media only concentrated on the issues of terror, much more was discussed. In fact it would not be an exaggeration if we said, that this is one of the most important meetings for Central Asia ever. For the first time Tajikistan will have access to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea, a dream of Catherine the Great of Russia.
The Dorah Pass will be used to build a road cutting through Afghanistan into Tajikistan. It is important to remember that the think strip of Afghan land of (Badakhshan province) was inserted as a buffer between the British and Russian Empires. The area of around the Afghan city of Langhar Aab e Vakhan and Darya Panj was the buffer. The proposed Gwader to Dushambe road will cross the Aab e Vakhan from Chitral and then hook up with the major Tajik town of Eshkashem. China is also working to hook up roads and rails to the region. It is obvious that this road will be extended to China and to Beijing (through Tajikistan and also through the Karakorum Highway).
The Tajikistan Pakistan Highway simply resurrects the old trade routes that existed between the people of the Indus and those in Tajikistan. Later the Greeks, the Persian, and the Turks cake down the same passes to the fertile plains of the Punjab.
… the joint declaration signed by the presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan on the last day of the visit they committed their countries to “construction of rail roads and highways” so as to give “Tajikistan access to the sea through the Pakistani sea ports”.
Meeting with the presidents of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan, Medevdev called building energy infrastructure a vital prerequisite for prosperity. “Energy projects are what really help governments that need to strengthen their economy,” he said. “Assistance must not just be a one-off, it should be aimed toward the future.” Boston Globe.
The British carved their way through sovereign Lands, annexing lands and creating new artificial borders and hegemonised and scourged the lands of their wealth and trade.
A Century later the old alliance with once again can be re-lived and we hope this will lead to a greater brotherly relationship of yester year.
This is a region linked not only by geography but also history, language, culture, religion and also ethnicities.
This is the beginning of the great Asia, an Asia of yesteryear was like the Europe of today. Let us rebuild an integrated modern Asia.
One must also take not that the rabid Bha-Ratties have never enjoyed any of the above relationships with central except through an era of an “Islamic India”.
India has no place in this inevitable union of central Asian nations linking the great markets and services of China and Russia tot he Arabian Sea and further a field.
We have a great future but it will not be any easy journey as there are others who seek to hegemonise these vital trade routes and sabotage the union of these brotherly nations from coming together.
Pakistan needs to be committed and require real credible leadership. The military needs to be focussed and undeterred from the saboteurs from either side of our borders. Yes Pakistanis will sacrifice in this End Game of “The Great Game” but Pakistan will achieve its pinnacle.
This also marks the beginning of the end of India.
Indian demise will be swift as the Indian Federation will crumble and tumble down.
It is inevitable Pakistan and Bangladesh can never sever their links as their destinies are joined. All the once princely states of The Sub Continent will have a new injection of life when they realise the potential of being part of the greater Asian Union outside of a Brahmin centric control.
It will be a bloody brutal revolution like the revolutions of Europe, there will be conflict and shifts in paradigm but ultimately Bha-Rat as a nation will crumble and the Sub Continent will become free of Brahmin centric control in New Delhi.
A stable united Asia through the networks of trade routes that will appear in from Central Asia will bring prosperity and peace for all. This however will not sit well with Bharat who have their own engineering’s of how destiny should be involving a Bharat centric Asia that has never been and will be.
Bharat will oppose the coming union of Asian Nations seeking co operation at all levels from trade & economics, politics, social levels, defence, cultural exchange, road and rail links, communication and infrastructure.
This will signal a dawn of a peaceful and prosperous Asia but yes it will come at a price by “the powers that be” seeking to Hegemonise and monopolise.
If these nations and all strategic partners remain resolute and focussed and enhance the influence of the SCO and ECO and work together with he OIC. Through unity the obstacles that will be laid out by the Imperialists across the Atlantic and their folly or the saboteurs that sit in Israel and India will be thwarted.
So a prosperous China is for the greater good of the region. A strong and influential China will bring together Russia, central Asian states, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and this will be welcomed across ASIA, The Middle East and Africa.
Eventually America and Europe will realise it is in their interest that there be a stable and profitable ASIA for trade and bolster their stagnant economies.
