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Shikari Megastar Username: Shikari Post Number: 23284 Registered: 03-2010 Posted From: 124.123.54.230 Rating: N/A |
temporary anukuntunna..idharu donga nayalle kabatti. http://i.imgur.com/eUYcc.gif | ||
Rajusk Legend Username: Rajusk Post Number: 60361 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 170.74.248.21 Rating: N/A |
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Emc2 Legend Username: Emc2 Post Number: 56735 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 71.126.165.28 Rating: N/A |
both ports are 70km apart, very important to india..good game | ||
Emc2 Legend Username: Emc2 Post Number: 56734 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 71.126.165.28 Rating: N/A |
good news enti raaju gaaru, chinki gallu mottam funding chesaka afghan lekka oka talib create ayyedi unde, total infra nakipoyedi what else chinks expect from pakis, baaga digali yedavalaki  | ||
Rajusk Legend Username: Rajusk Post Number: 60357 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 170.74.248.21 Rating: N/A |
this is good news for us..ivvale chadivanu atu pakka Chabahar port open avvadam itu pakka CPEC dukaan bandh avvadam.. | ||
Uno Side Hero Username: Uno Post Number: 2151 Registered: 03-2016 Posted From: 99.231.161.157 Rating: N/A |
Chabahar is economically not viable ,but strategically important to counter China,to access Afghanistan and central asia for trade and economic relation(even to mobilize Army and defense equipment to Afghanistan-Pak border ....remote possibility though) China is developing Gawadar and building CPEC to have access to Arabian sea and have control in the region (just like it has built islands south China sea and making a base).China Plans to make Gawadar it's Military base and station it's submarines and military,on pretext of security to it's port..China has already made plan to encircle India with taking over port in Srilanka,Maldives,and with active infra plan in Nepal and Burma | ||
Scorpio Hero Username: Scorpio Post Number: 18467 Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 73.83.15.106 Rating: N/A |
China Stops Funds For China-Pak Economic Corridor Over Corruption: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-stops-funds-for-china- pak-economic-corridor-over-corruption-report-1783849?pfrom=h ome-lateststories You do one more Mumbai, you lose Balochistan - NSA Ajit Doval | ||
Rajusk Legend Username: Rajusk Post Number: 60356 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 170.74.248.21 Rating: |
ninnane chadivanu..etu tirigi meeru thaadu vestharu kada..andulo disco cheyyochu ani waiting | ||
Teluguhero Side Hero Username: Teluguhero Post Number: 2485 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 76.106.197.158 Rating: N/A |
http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/how-chabahar-port -could-bring-india-and-its-partners-iran-afghanistan-and-a-n ew-spring-4966443/ How Chabahar Port could bring India and its partners a new spring Writing in his magisterial 11th century AD book, titled Kitab Tarikh Al-Hind (âA History of Indiaâ), Al Biruni, the Persian scholar and polymath who travelled to India in 1017, stated that coastal India began from a town named âTisâ (it was renamed from âTizâ). Legend has it that Alexander the Great also crossed Tiz, a fishing village at the time, as his troops marched towards India in 326 BC. Modern Chabahar, which houses Tis, came into being in the 1970s. It became strategically important when Tehran realised its value and in the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war, it was developed as a strategic-economic port. On Sunday, the first phase of the port project was inaugurated, which is expected to increase its capacity by over three times. On Saturday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had a luncheon meeting with the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, as her plane had a refuelling stop on her way back from Sochi in Russia, where she attended the Heart of Asia meeting on Afghanistanâs future. While the first phase of Chabahar has been completed, India, Iran and Afghanistan are committed to developing the port into a massive project that can handle a cargo of 80 million tonnes â the existing capacity is just 2.5 million tonnes. This targeted commitment came a month after India sent its first consignment of 1.1 lakh tonnes of wheat for Afghanistan through the Chabahar Port on October 29 this year. Ads by ZINC Also Read: Iranâs Chabahar port opens, allows India to bypass Pakistan on trade route to Afghanistan But the full story of Indiaâs involvement in the development of Chabahar Port began when Hassan Rouhani, Iranâs National Security Advisor under President Syed Mohammad Khatami, held discussions with his Indian counterpart, Brajesh Mishra, in 2002. A few months later, in January 2003, when Iranâs President Khatami visited India as the chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations, he and then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee signed on an ambitious roadmap of strategic cooperation. Among the key projects agreed on was Chabahar, which held the potential to link the South Asian subcontinent to the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe. At a press conference, Vajpayee said that the two countries were determined to âconsolidate, expand and diversifyâ bilateral relations, with clear targets to be achieved over the ânext five yearsâ, or by 2008. In the New Delhi Declaration they signed, the two leaders recognised that their âgrowing strategic convergence needs to be underpinned with a strong economic relationshipâ. In boosting the economic content of ties, the focus was on building transport corridors and deepening energy cooperation. Interestingly, this strategic-economic cooperation between India and Iran took place in the backdrop of both countries being against the Taliban regime, and both being among the key backers of the Ahmed Shah Massoud-led Northern Alliance. To add to that, Indiaâs ambition of reaching Afghanistan â since Pakistan had blocked land transit and access through its territory â fuelled the need for developing the strategic project of Chabahar. But the Khatami-Vajpayee duoâs ambitious timelines were undone by Indiaâs growing ties with the US administration, then under President George W. Bush. The latterâs declaration of Iran being one of the âaxis of evilâ â along with Iraq and North Korea âpushed New Delhi to abandon its strategic relationship with Tehran. Chabahar became an unintended casualty. Chabahar, which is located 72 kilometres west of Pakistanâs Gwadar port, holds immense strategic and economic significance for India, which has already spent about US$ 100 million to construct a 218 km-long (140 mile-long) road from Delaram in western Afghanistan to Zaranj on the Iran-Afghan border to link up with Chabahar Port. While there was a glacial pace in developing the Chabahar project, it gathered momentum in 2015 as the Iran-P-5+1 talks bore fruition and geopolitics took a new direction. About three weeks after Iran and world powers announced the framework deal on April 2, 2015, committing themselves to finalising a comprehensive deal by June-end, on April 27-29, 2015, the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visited India â and stressed the importance of the Chabahar Port. Ghani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to work closely with Iran to make the Chabahar Port a reality and develop it as a viable gateway to Afghanistan and Central Asia. They agreed that routes beyond the existing ones would provide a major impetus to Afghanistanâs economic reconstruction efforts. That set the ball rolling. Over the next year, coordination between the three countries led to the signing of the trilateral agreement between India, Iran and Afghanistan in May 2016. And in the year and a half since, the Indian shipping ministry has worked at a brisk pace towards developing the project. What has complicated matters in 2017 has been the new US administrationâs attitude towards Iran. New Delhi has been cautious. But South Block appears determined to stay the course since it believes the benefits of the Chabahar project are clear. Delhiâs approach also stems from the fact that China is aggressively pursuing its own Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) under Chinese President Xi Jinpingâs One Belt One Road (OBOR) project âmany in Delhi view this as one of Indiaâs projects to counter Xiâs BRI. But, to make it a commercially and strategically viable option, Indian policymakers will have to use the Chabahar project as a lynchpin to integrate it with its larger connectivity project â the International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC). The INSTC, initiated in 2000 by Russia, India and Iran, is a multi-modal transportation route linking the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea via Iran, and onward to northern Europe via St Petersburg in Russia. The INSTC envisages the movement of goods from Mumbai, India to Bandar Abbas, Iran, by sea, from Bandar Abbas to Bandar-e-Anzali, an Iranian port on the Caspian Sea, by road, from Bandar-e-Anzali to Astrakhan, a Caspian port in the Russian Federation, by ship across the Caspian Sea, and thereafter into the Russian Federation and further into Europe by Russian Railways. Recently, Phunchok Stobdan, a senior fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and a founding member of the Ladakh International Centre (LIC), wrote in an IDSA issue brief (published in June, 2017), âINSTC and Chabahar Port will complement each other for optimising Indian connectivity with Russia and Eurasia. The multiple transport corridors intersecting the region can be easily accessed from the southâ¦â Stobdan, who was also Indiaâs envoy to Kyrgyzstan, added, âAccording to some estimates, the Chabahar route plus INSTC could boost trade to a total of US$ 170 billion from India to Eurasia (60.6 billion in export and 107.4 billion in import)â. With the first phase of the Chabahar project done, South Block officials recall how, in May 2016, under the ornate chandeliers of the atrium in Tehranâs Saadabad Palace, Rouhani by his side, Modi quoted a Persian couplet by Mirza Ghalib to describe Indiaâs ties with Iran, âOnce we make up our mind, the distance between Kashi and Kashan is only half a step.â While Kashi (or Varanasi) is Modiâs constituency, Kashan is the hub of the Persian carpet industry in Iran. That day, India and Iran signed the âhistoricâ agreement to develop Chabahar Port. Later, Ghani joined the two leaders and a trilateral transit agreement was signed. Rouhani even called for the day to be celebrated as âthe Day of Chabaharâ, which brought spring to the three countries. âChabaharâ literally means a place where all four seasons of the year are like spring. For Delhiâs economic and strategic reach, itâs time to make that a reality now. |
