Pakistan & Afghanistan Summit (PAS)Summit (PAS)

Infrastructure & Logistics

Mr. Ghulam Mohayuddin MarriMember (Infrastructure), Planning Commission

OutlineOutline

• Infrastructure & Growth

• Pakistan – Afghanistan Relations

• Future Challenges for Infrastructure• Future Challenges for Infrastructure Development

Infrastructure & GrowthInfrastructure & Growth• Roads, electricity provision, and communications appear

to be necessary for the basic functioning of any economyeconomy.

• Many Economic models linking infrastructure and• Many Economic models linking infrastructure and productivity,

• Transport & logistics infrastructure projects have significant impacts on the development of regionalsignificant impacts on the development of regional economies like improvement in health, education, well being, employment and lowering the cost of inputs etc.

Pakistan & AfghanistanPakistan & Afghanistan• 1965 version Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Trade

Agreement (APTTA) Revised & Signed in October 2010

• The salient features of revised version are;freedom of Transit to both co ntries– freedom of Transit to both countries,

– allowing Pakistan access to Central Asian Republics through Afghanistan, g

– allowing Afghanistan access to Pakistan’s sea ports – and allowing Afghanistan access to Wagah for its exports to

IndiaIndia. – Pakistan has also secured rights for exports to Turkmenistan,

Uzbekistan, Iran and Tajikistan through Afghanistan.

Trade Volumes (2009 10)Trade Volumes (2009-10)

Mutual Trade Pakistan’s exports to Afghanistan were $1.4

imports from Afghanistan are $101 million.

Billion

Transit Trade The Afghan transit The transit imports gexports through Pakistan stood at $40 million.

pthrough Pakistan rose to $1 billion.

Major Projects in AfghanistanMajor Projects in Afghanistan• Construction of;

– Kabul University, – Jalalabad to Torkham carriageway, – Jinnah Hospital in Kabul,

T o Kidne Centers in Jalalabad– Two Kidney Centers in Jalalabad, – Kabul-Jalalabad-Torkham Highway, – Peshawar Jalalabad Railway Link,Peshawar Jalalabad Railway Link, – Chaman-Spin Boldak Railway Link, – Naeb Aminullah Khan Logari Hospital, – Primary schools and basic health units

Ed ti l F iliti t Af h t d t th h• Educational Facilities to Afghan students through Scholarships

PAKISTAN’s GEO-STRATEGIC LOCATION

KAZAKHSTANTURKEY JAPANCASPION SEA

ARALARMENIAGEORGIA

MANGOLIAKAZAKHSTAN

TURKMENISTANIRAQ

KOREA

KYRGYZSTAN

UZBEKISTANSYRIAAZERBAIJAN

ARAL SEA

ARMENIA

CHINAIRAN AFGHANISTAN

TAJIKISTAN

INDIA

PAKISTAN

OMANYEMEN

SAUDIA ARABIA UAE NEPALBHUTAN

BANGLADESH

TAIWAN

INDIAOMANYEMEN

MYANMAR

THAILAND VIETNAM

LAOS

BANG`KOKCAMBODIA

SRILANKATo Europe

MALASIA

SINGAPOR

The core of this corridor ‘moves’ most of Pakistan’s l l d f dlocal and foreign trade..….

3 ports handling 95 % of external tradeGateway to CARs trade.Two main roads and a main railway

Corridor area contributing 80-85 %

of GDP

Gateway to CARs and Afghanistan

External ~ 55 mil t/yr main railway

line handling 65 percent of total land

mil t/yrInternal > 500 mil t/yr

freight.10 dry portscatering tocatering to high value external trade.

80 % urban population living

within this corridor

Pipelines carrying 6 mil tones of POL.

Karimabad

ROAD SECTOR PROJECTS PROPOSED FOR CAREC MEDIUM TERM ROLLING PIPELINE (2011-15)

CHINASust

KHUNJERAB 

GILGIT

Chilas

Sazin

Mansehra

Dasu

Malakand

Dir

Drosh

Chitral

PESHAWAR

Skardu

Jalkhad

Naran

Muzaffarabad

Kalam

Chakdara

Besham

Kwazakhela

ChakotiS‐3

TORKHAM

Gilgit

TORKHAM PESHAWAR MansehraPESHAWAR

ISLAMABAD

Bannu

Kashmir(Disputed Territory)Parachinar

Muzaffarabad

MurreeN‐75

Kohala

Kharian

Rawalpindi

Nowshera

TORKHAMTORKHAM PESHAWAR

Rawalpindi

LAHORE

Okara

Zhob

Dera Ismail KhanMughal Kot

Retra

Malana

Pindi Bhattian

Faisalabad

Sarai Gambila

INDIA

Wazirabad

Qila Saifullah

WAHGADl Khan

Route 1: 1,457 Km (58 hrs)Torkhum Ratodero Karachi

CHAMAN

Multan

BahawalpurKalatNok Kundi Dalbandin

Nushki

QUETTA

DadharSibi

Loralai

Rajanpur

MianchannuKuchlak D. G. Khan

Nuttal

Lodhran

E‐5

Khanewal

Mastung

TAFTAN

Torkhum–Ratodero–Karachi

Route 2: 1,950 Km (78 hrs)Torkhum–Ratodero–Gwadar

DG Khan

Kuchlak

Rahimyar Khan

Wad

Surab

Khuzdar RatoderoJacobabad

Ubauro

IRAN Nag

Basima N‐30

Sukkur

Kotri Kabir

Khuzdar Ratodero

INDIA

Basima

Route 3: 2,325 Km (100 hrs)Khunjerab–Ratodero–Karachi

Route 4: 2 817 Km (120 hrs)

Liari

Bela

Uthal

Jiwani Pasni

Kotri

Dadu Moro

Hala

M‐9

Sehwan

M‐7

AwaranTurbat Hoshab

panjgur

Khokropar

Umerkot

Kotri Kabir

HyderabadHyderabad

Hoshab

Route 4: 2,817 Km (120 hrs)Khunjerab–Ratodero–Gwadar

Route 5: 816 Km (32 hrs)Chaman – Surab – KarachiJiwani

OrmaraPasni

Thatta

N‐5

M 9

ARABIAN SEA

M‐10

N‐110

Keti Bander

Gharo

KARACHIGWADAR

Chaman Surab Karachi

Route 6: 1,040 Km (42 hrs)Chaman – Surab – Gwadar

Planned Projects In PakistanPlanned Projects In Pakistan

• Contruction of;– M-7(Karachi-Dadu Motorway),– E-3 (Pindi Bhattain-Wazirabad Expressway),– M-4 (Multan-Pindi Bhattian Motorway),– E-5 (Khanewal-Lodhran Expressway),– Additional Carriageway on the Indus Highway (N-55),– M-8 for Gwadar Link to north (through Hoshab-

Awaran-Khuzdar), – M-9 (Karachi – Hyderabad)– N-15 for Karakoram Hoghway (from Chilas-

Mansehra).

Government of Pakistan’s IncentivesGovernment of Pakistan s Incentives

• 100% remittances of capital, profits & dividends, ,

100% f i hi• 100% foreign ownership

• and on 5% duty on import of Plant Machiner and Eq ipmentMachinery and Equipment.

Member (Infrastructure) PlanningMember (Infrastructure), Planning Commission

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