Thread by @shaheerk59

Today we’ll talk about how🇵🇰&🇮🇳have assisted and contributed in Afg.
This🧵is for those who compare🇵🇰efforts with that of🇮🇳. 🇮🇳doesn’t even come close to what🇵🇰has been doing for the Afghan ppl despite having fragile economy.
Spoiler: Most of the🇮🇳projects exist only on paper😉

Pakistan Assistance to Afghanistan:
1. Education and Training:
• Rahman Baba School, Kabul.
• Rahman Baba Hostel, Kabul.
• Allama Iqbal Faculty of Humanities, Kabul University.
• Sir Syed Post Graduate Faculty of Sciences, Nangarhar University.

• Liaqat Ali Khan Engineering Faculty, Balkh University.
• Six Primary Schools in various provinces.
• Two Vocational Training Institutes in Kabul city and Baghlan.
• 2×200 KVA Generator for Kabul University.
• 10 Buses for Kabul and Nangarhar Universities.

• 5 million Religious Text Books of Grade One to Grade Ten.
• 300,000 School Kits for 18 provinces.
• 3000 School Bags for Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar.
• 6000 Afghans Studying in Universities and Colleges in Pakistan.

• 500,000 Refugee Students enrolled in Schools in Pakistan.
• 2000 Fully Funded Scholarships for Higher Education in Pakistan.
• Trained 644 Afghan Police and Drug Control Officers, Doctors and Paramedical Staff, Diplomats, Judicial Officers, Customs Officers,

Agriculturists and Bankers.

2. Healthcare:
• Nishtar Kidney Centre, Jalalabad.
• Four Hundred Bed Jinnah Hospital, Kabul.
• Naeb Aminullah Khan Hospital, Logar.
• 45 Ambulances for 12 Provinces.
• 14 Fully Equipped Mobile Medical Units.

• Medicines for Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar.
• A Week-Long Free Eye Camp in Jalalabad treated 4818 patients, Performed 357 Eye Surgeries and Distributed 4126 Eye Glasses.
• A single philanthropic Pakistani organization performed over 30,000 free eye surgeries on

Afghan patients in 2008 alone.

3. Roads & Transport:
• 75 KM Torkham –Jalalabad Road.
• Additional Carriage Wayat Torkham –Jalalabad Road.
• 3 Internal Roads in Jalalabad.
• Rail Link to connect Chaman and Kandahar (Proposal under construction).

• Traffic Signals in Jalalabad city.
• Provision of Road Construction Machinery.
• 30 Mobile Hot Mixers.
• 200 Trucks.
• 100 Public Transport Buses.
• 2 Pickups, 4 Generators and Medicines for Wardak Province.

4. General Assistance:
• Television Transmitters for Kandahar.
• Digital Radio Link between Kabul and Peshawar.
• 28 Generators to Various Provinces.
• Security Equipment.
• 500 Computers for Different Provinces.
• Installed 15 deep well hand pumps in villages of Kabul.

• Rehabilitated Kabul Zoo and Deh Mazang Park.
• 50,000 Food Packages during the Month of Ramadan.
• 50,000 Metric Ton Wheat.
• 9600 Tents for the Internally Displaced People.
• 100 Afghans Assisted to Perform Hajj.

5. Trade between Pakistan & Afghanistan:
• Pakistan is Afghanistan’s largest trade partner.
• Historically both the countries have had good trade relations. According to Afghanistan Central Statics Organization (CSO), Ministry of Finance, during Afghanistan’s

FY 2018, bilateral trade remained the highest and reached US$ 1,437 million followed by Afghanistan- Iran at US$ 1,284 million.
• Pakistan Exports to Afghanistan was US$833.42 Million during 2021, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade.

Meanwhile imports from Afghanistan, meanwhile, have increased to more than $700 million from $550 million last year.
• The two sides have the following institutional mechanisms in the domain of trade and economic cooperation:

i. Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Trade Cooperation Authority (APTTCA).
ii. Pak-Afghan Joint Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
iii. Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Business Council.
iv. Joint Economic Commission (JEC).
v. Afghan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS).

• Pakistani government has identified 44 places on the border where it plans to establish new crossings to further facilitate commercial activities as well as visitor movement.

The So-Called Indian Investment in Afghanistan:
While India claims to have invested nearly $3 Billion in Afg, one thing to note here is that most of these projects are not even completed yet, they are only inked.
As of July 2020, India had signed another five

agreements for the construction of schools and roads worth $2.5 million. (Not completed)
At the 2020 Geneva Conference, Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said New Delhi would construct the Shatoot Dam in the Kabul district. (Not completed)

India also undertook over 100 projects worth $80 million in Afghanistan. (Not completed)
India has committed about $120 million to develop various small and medium-scale projects, including education, health, water management

and sports facilities, since 2005. (Only Salma Dam and Medical Diagnostic Center in Kabul was completed and that too in 2016 and 2015 respectively.)

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