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Economic future of Afghanistan along with CPEC and region

Mir Mohammad Alikhan by Mir Mohammad Alikhan
August 26, 2021

Afghanistan was taken over by the Mujahideen. Not a single bullet fired. No civil war. No resistance. No forceful closure of girls’ schools. No oppression of women and minorities. No attacks on any diplomats or embassies. No hostages were taken and no wrath unleashed.

And all of the above is not good. Not good for America and its allies that is. America did not foresee a peaceful transition. India over calculated its covert operations abilities. NATO thought the Mujahideen are like The TTP. You see, America has historically needed an imaginary enemy since 1958.

From the war of the Koreas to JFK’s Cuba to McCarthy’s communism to Carters’ Iran to Bush’s Iraq to Raegan’s Soviet Union to the Columbians, the Sandinistas, the Libyans to the Afghanis, and recently the Chinese. America cannot survive without a perceived enemy. Economic and otherwise. Never in the past 70 odd years has it not been involved in a military conflict somewhere in the world.

Because it helps its Military-Industrial complex, creates revenues, increases local GDP and the government ends up collecting 34%+ corporate taxes. What it spends to create a war comes back full circle to benefit itself, the citizens of America, the corporate lobby, the Pentagon and its image of being MIGHTIER THAN THOU. And do not forget the expansion of its military bases, 120+ in 80 countries around the world. The top 14 American defense and related corporations during the Afghan war alone gained over $1.8 trillion in value of its shares.

Let’s start from the point that a stable Pakistan is not in favor of India. Let’s take a step further by saying that an economically strong Pakistan is death to the Indian designs. And for this two reasons alone India infiltrated Afghanistan. A country it shares no history with, no border with, no culture with, and no economic ties with. Almost 2 dozen Consulates, 1000’s in staff, and an unaccounted for in numbers espionage team. With a single goal in mind: destabilize Pakistan with terrorism hence resulting in an unstable Pakistan economically.

Well, that fell on its face. And fell flat. My enemy’s enemy is my best friend. This was the mantra that the India-Afghanistan nexus was built upon in the Ghani regime. Ghani helped India by bending over backward. India had a goal of destabilizing Pakistan and the Ghani regime was the facilitator.

These Indian designs started to fall apart when Iran cut its ties in a much-unexpected mover a year ago. You see, Iranians are smart. They followed the smell of money and that smell was stronger coming from China than India. China promised and inked an agreement to invest $620 billion through its Belt And Road Initiative BRI, the parent project handling CPEC, in Iran, and Iran immediately changed its tune. The flute played Chinese tunes instead of Indian RAAG.

Good for Pakistan and one thing let me add here is that nothing in the intelligence world is an accident. This was the preamble to the Mujahideen taking over Afghanistan within the next 14 months. And history proved it. Iran knew it, China facilitated it, and Pakistan…well let’s leave what Pakistan “might” have done.

If you think that entire Afghanistan fell to the Mujahideen as an accident, well you need to read the world history of preparations and infiltrations. When the Afghan Army was put together by the Americans, and they spent $103 billion dollars raising this useless Army, 11 years of Pakistan Army’s budget, they first included the non-pushtoons. The Tajiks The Uzbeks and the rest. That created an imbalance and they were forced to include some of the Pushtoons from the 17 million population of this race in Afghanistan.

This is my view was the perfect inroads for the Mujahideen to have their sympathizers infiltrate right at the recruitment level. And that came in handy when Mujahideen announced the takeover, droves upon droves of the Afghan Army started to surrender. You see, Armed forces are a psychological phenomenon as well. Once the majority sees the high-ranking officials surrendering then the low-ranking soldiers have no leader left, they surrender as well. And this is exactly what happened in Afghanistan. Surrender within 19 days without firing a single bullet.

Most of the Central Asian countries are landlocked. The ring that comprises them are countries, Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. And the only impediment in economic activities connecting all these countries through the land was Afghanistan. All the other Central Asian countries fall inside this ring. Imagine an entire region connected for the first time through roads and tunnels in modern history after the demise of The Silk Road concept.

Now imagine CPEC and The BRI. Pakistan taking the lead because of the only deepwater port, Gwadar, and road connectivity to all nations together that produce more than 56% of the world GDP. The highest oil reserves, Russia is the worlds’ largest oil producer. The best mineral deposits, Afghanistan has over $1 trillion dollars of Rare Earth minerals, mostly Lithium, the new oil for the next few centuries, China leading the world in economic might and Pakistan being it’s all-time ally.

The economic activity that will be created will dwarf any single country. A safe passage through Afghanistan for all the countries connecting it to Gwadar and a safe passage through the Central Asia countries and Iran all the way to Turkey, connecting Western Europe to these countries. $92 trillion dollars of the world GDP and 56% of it being locked within these countries and first time in modern history a combined trading block—The end result: an economic giant block in the making. And none of it could be done without Pakistan and its deep water port.

Simply put. Afghanistan became the graveyard of economic dominance dreams of the West and India. A new dawn is here. The worst America can do at this time is to freeze Afghan assets overseas, nothing more than $15 billion dollars. And my prediction is that it will do that and do it in tranches. Will that kill the Afghan economy? No. Temporary chaos? Yes. Nothing more than that because this was expected and I am sure it was preempted in more ways than we can imagine. The conclusion is that the balance of economic power has tilted to the east.

Pakistan will have regional importance like never before. Economic activity will pick up within the next 6 to 12 months and will continue to rise. Afghanistan will attract an immense amount of reconstruction and development funds. Not just roads but institutions like Tax Authority, Financial Markets Development, Banking sector enhancements, dams and you name it.

Together all the countries I named above will reshape the region and Pakistan will be at the heart of all this. Insha Allah. Good days are ahead. 70,000 lives of our martyrs have finally brought us to this stage. Let’s pay tribute to them and play our cards right. And the first step towards playing the cards right is to STAY UNITED and fight FAKE NEWS.

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