India’s Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Randhir Jaiswal says New Delhi is committed to supporting Afghans and this is the country’s “stable” policy towards the people of Afghanistan.
Jaiswal stated that India uses Chabahar port to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan and landlocked countries in Central Asia.
“It is our stable policy to support the people of Afghanistan, especially through humanitarian aid, food, medicine, etc. We use Chabahar for this specific purpose,” he said.
This Indian official added that Chabahar port is an important project to establish connectivity in the region and provide humanitarian aid.
Earlier, other Indian officials had said that New Delhi would try to connect Afghanistan and Central Asia through the Chabahar port and expand trade exchanges.
Chabahar is also an economic and commercial corridor. India’s focus, which is more on Chabahar, is because India can gain access to Central Asia and increase its trade from Afghanistan to Central Asia. The income is better for all countries and Afghanistan can also export from Chabahar to India and other countries,” said Mirwais Hajizadeh, deputy of the Chamber of Agriculture and Livestock.
Recently, India and Iran have signed a ten-year agreement for the development of Chabahar port, through which India can export its commercial goods to Afghanistan and Central Asian countries.
The development of Chabahar port is one of the tripartite projects between Iran, India and Afghanistan, the contract of which was signed in 1395 solar year between Kabul, New Delhi and Tehran.
Chabahar port is considered one of the options for Afghanistan and India to bypass Pakistan because, in recent years, trade and transit relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have not been stable enough.
The Islamic Emirate also said that Chabahar port is one of the vital ports for Afghanistan and the country has a special place in the transit of the region.