Port is seen as a strategic outlet to Central Asia bypassing Pakistan. Last month reports indicated India transferred $120 mn to Tehran, as it withdraws exposure to US sanctions.
New Delhi has never recognised the so-called China-Pakistan ‘Boundary Agreement’ signed in 1963, through which Islamabad ceded territorial control of the valley to Beijing.
Chinese construction activities in the Valley located in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir have gathered steam following the standoff in Bhutan's Doklam in 2017.
Two sides have held multiple rounds of negotiation to arrive at a balanced & mutually beneficial trade agreement & a deal was close on several occasions, asserts MEA.
It is not State aggrandisement that has to explain and justify itself but the claims of human liberty and individuality, libertarian commentator MA Venkata Rao wrote in 1958.
The Pakistani political leadership is weak and devoid of any intellect. Its diplomacy is entirely India-China-US focused and suffers from a presumptive view of Afghanistan as a vassal.
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