This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesman, Nafees Zakaria, has completely denied the allegations made by the Afghan President, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani that Pakistan is not allowing its traders to use Wagah port for getting its products into India via Wagah-Attari border. According to Zakaria, Pakistan did not stop Afghan traders from moving their products to India through the border as “Pakistan is fulfilling its commitment to the Afghan people by providing them with a trade transit facility.”
It was clarified that Islamabad’s bilateral agreement with Kabul dictates that only Indian goods could not be imported into Afghanistan through Pakistan. The clarification has come after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani threatened to block Pakistan’s land access to Central Asia in case it did not allow Afghan traders to take their goods to India via Wagah. During a meeting in Kabul with the UK’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Owen Jenkins, Ghani mentioned on Friday that “if Pakistan does not allow Afghan traders to use the Wagah border for imports and exports of their goods, Afghanistan will also not allow Pakistan to use Afghan transit routes to reach Central Asia and other countries for exports.”
A spokesperson for Pakistan’s trade ministry, Muhammad Ashraf, also denied Ashraf Ghani’s allegation and revealed that “under the Pak-Afghan transit trade agreement, Afghan products go to India through Wagah. There has been no change in this policy in Pakistan.”
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