Pakistan has a great geographical location and has been helping its neighbours and other friendly countries and contributing towards regional peace. The progress made by Pakistan before the USSR and Afghan war was tremendous and was among the top developing countries of the region in various fields. Our airline, railways, and shipping routes proved to be the best and Pakistan had been providing technical assistance to other countries for establishing airlines, railways, and shipping etc.
Karachi Shipyard and Engineering
Works was a masterpiece catering to shipbuilding, ship repair and general heavy
engineering. After being trapped in the USSR and Afghan war, the Pakistani
economy heading towards a negative and war brought a big crunch and retarded
the developing speed of the county in various sectors. This brought the GDP
down, the growth rate fell and inflation went up leading to irreversible
setbacks. Sadly, the Afghan war brought misery, not only to itself but
devastations to Pakistan and left long-lasting effects on our society and
growth. It introduced us to Kalashnikov culture, sectarian clashes, extremism
and terrorism, and access to all kinds of narcotics become very easy.
I wish that Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China may create a bond of tri-brotherly ties and start working in an era of a new bond of friendship as they stand interconnected with natural land routes and the natural bond of mountains. Let us learn from China which managed to remain away from the infection of war and controlled terrorism and in fact, China paid more attention to the economy and developed various sectors including agriculture and industry on the fast track and steered clear from dirty international politics. Today, China is on the top with an economy worth trillions of dollars, and whereas Pakistan’s economy stands on the negative side it is still sliding down due to huge international debts.
China and Pakistan have
contributed together and have helped the international communities on various
fronts and international crises. China is contributing a lot to the development
of African and other developing countries. The Afghan conflict has been used by
the west as a tool to keep this part of the world under pressure and to
destabilise the region. This destabilisation is affecting Pakistan and
Afghanistan adversely and needs to be rectified for the sake of the stability
and prosperity of this region. I have been a student and contributor to the
growing great relationship of China and Pakistan and I feel that there is room
to create a powerful torque and potential for working together in the peace
process of Afghanistan. Pakistan, Afghanistan and China have the huge potential
to work in various fields of common interest and emerge as very strong
political and economic forces with their God-gifted natural resources.
In view of the above, I enlist
the following areas of cooperation between these three great nations;
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China
may sign a tri party MoU to work together. The three countries have potential
in mineral, agriculture and other fields of mutual benefit. These three
countries have a natural alliance and connectivity in the form of roads and
other links, especially CPEC can bring a great revolution in the development of
Afghanistan as China and Pakistan together can play a role in reconstructing
Afghanistan. In a trilateral agreement, they can have this new opportunity to
work together in the interest of this region. This troika MoU can also end the
ever-continued foreign interference in Afghanistan. The three countries must
sign an MoU to spread a railway line from Beijing to Afghanistan via Pakistan
and these three great nations can have a quantitative economic, business,and
cultural bond in the larger interest of Afghanistan and co-signatories.
I firmly believe that the
trilateral relations between Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan will bring
amazing effects on their economy, the stabilisation of Afghanistan and ensuring
regional peace. I wish that the above proposal will be taken seriously by the
leadership of three countries in the interest of the region as it will not only
ensure the stability, progress and development of Afghanistan but will also
eliminate terrorists and the misuse of Afghan soil by India.
The article was published in The Nation on August 1, 2021, Link to original article: https://nation.com.pk/01-Aug-2021/a-strong-emerging-bloc
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