ANP blockades Afghanistan

[fzpz]

Trade with Afghanistan comes to a halt.

Trade with Afghanistan comes to a halt – The Express Tribune

[graveyardofempires]

By Qaiser Butt
Published: March 29, 2011


Federal Board of Revenue blocks goods at Karachi Port . PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD: Trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan has come to a standstill after the provincial government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa imposed a ban on animal export, followed immediately by the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) decision to block over 10,000 Afghanistan-bound trucks at the Karachi Port, an official requesting anonymity told The Express Tribune.

Addressing the media last week, Provincial Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the government banned animal export in order to avoid shortage and increase in prices of red meat in the local market. “Export permit holders should purchase animals from Punjab or other provinces, but not from our province,” said Hussain.
A similar ban imposed earlier had been lifted following an order by the Peshawar High Court on a petition filed by a local trader.
The provincial government has also recommended the federal government to stop issuing permits for animal exports to Afghanistan without prior consent.
Meanwhile, the goods imported by Afghan traders under the transit trade agreement were being blocked by FBR officials at the Karachi Port for the past three months without any reason, said Pak-Afghan Transit Trade Group Senior Vice-President Abdul Hamid Gorwara.
Traders and customs clearing agents of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have also launched a protest campaign in Peshawar against FBR’s refusal to release these trucks. “We have been left with no option but to launch the protest campaign,” Gorwara told The Express Tribune.
Hundreds of traders and customs clearing agents involved in Afghan transit trade will participate in the demonstrations seeking release of these goods, said Gorwara.
Gorwara added that many people had become unemployed due to the blockade while Afghan traders were suffering huge financial losses, as they had to pay heavy demurrage everyday. Until now, FBR has given no valid reason for stopping the trucks and has been saying that the goods will stay there for another few weeks.
An Afghan television channel TOLO quoted an official from the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry as saying, “30 per cent of food items in the containers stranded at the Karachi Port has perished.” These included edible oil, sugar and tea which were exposed to high temperatures for over six months.
Afghan traders have to pay $200,000 to Pakistan on a daily basis, despite the fact that these goods had perished, said the chamber head. A delegation consisting of government and private sector representatives is currently in Pakistan to discuss trade challenges.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2011.

[faye]

it is amazing that this news has just been released. what a terrible thing to do affecting the lives and welfare of so many people in both pakistan and afghanistan.
meanwhile the government still makes money from people.

[fzpz]

I'm a capitalist. I don't agree with the reasoning of their ban on exports, but i understand it (they're socialists at anp). Free markets should be allowed naturally. Protectionism is going to hurt the business both in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the long term.

[IamDZJ]

zoret sar khar namerasa, bezan da palaanish.
pakistani government is frustrated with the pashtuns of pakhtunkhwa for wanting their "freedom" and they are taking it out on afghans. neither have anything to lose at the end of the day. they will carry their rivalry at our cost.

[afghan]

any thing any time could be brought in or out, ban wont work. they should ban the terrorist, they are worse than animals.

[Nokia_Apridy]

sok Gurante warkwalay shi chay da trade ba halta PUKHTANU da PUKHTUNISTAN

da KOOR rana shi ?

nu PUKHTUNKHWA khpalay WEnay ba hem darwalgay

hela da chay poy ba wa

[Toramana]

Just look at the title of the thread...What does blockade mean? And what could be the intentions of the thread poster to give it such a title? Now read the news below. This is an old news (Oct 2010). Moreover, it has nothing to do with the blockade at the Karachi airport, which is obviously intended to pressurise Afghan govt.


"Peshawar—Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has imposed ban on export of animals to Afghanistan and proposed federal government not to issue further permits to exporters as over three million animals have been drowned in recent floods alone in KP. As a measure to control shortage as well as prices of sacrificial animals prior to Eid-ul-Azha, provincial government has issued the orders to CCPO Peshawar to take further steps to stop smuggling of the animals to the neighboring country.—Online"

http://pakobserver.net/201010/28/det...s.asp?id=59117

Qaiser Butt is an old ISI agent who worked in Frontier Post and caused the closure of that newspaper.

[Nokia_Apridy]

هاها زما هم په شک وو خو ښه شوا چي سپينه د کړا....


Qaiser Butt is an old ISI agent who worked in Frontier Post and caused the closure of that newspaper.

[Nick]

Pakistan is Pakistan, they will make you sign anything, but when it comes to $$$$ they would do anything to take it from you. Either by fooling you with nice words "Khan Sayab" or harsh word "Mahajur bewquf jangali Pathan" Done the line Afghanistan has no choice other than depand on them
http://www.pashtunforums.com/pashtun...-2070-a-15248/

[Michin Khel]

I can understand why afghanistan include balochistan gawadar port in their future map.

[salahuddin]

They should put a ban on the border until Taliban are totally eliminated.

[Shlombay]

this is why I think Awami National party and Pashtunkhwa milli party is full of beghairats.

[roadrunner]

So the provincial government, elected by the people of KPW, is blocking the export of meat to Afghanistan because stocks are low. Instead they say to buy from the Punjab. How is that a problem? dohh.

If they sell to Afghanistan at the same rate, the people of KPW will starve, or they'll need to buy from Punjab at higher cost.

[Michin Khel]

Afghanistan is so much dependant on pakistan for every thing that it should realize that friendly pakistan is in its best interest.