“Pakistan’s nightmare: How Chabahar is becoming India’s strategic bridge to Afghanistan”, First Post, December 01, 2025
“Afghanistan is quietly but unmistakably pulling away from Pakistan and moving closer to India in ways that would have been unthinkable even a few years ago. The bridge enabling this shift is Iran’s Chabahar Port, a project India patiently nurtured for over two decades despite sanctions, obstacles and geopolitical turbulence.
Today, that investment is paying strategic dividends. A new India-Iran-Afghanistan trade corridor is taking shape, and it is rapidly rewriting old equations across South Asia. For Pakistan, this is nothing short of a nightmare unfolding before its eyes.
Over the past three months, Kabul has sent an unmistakable signal. The visits of Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and Acting Commerce Minister Nooruddin Azizi to New Delhi marked the most significant diplomatic re-engagement between India and the Taliban regime since 2021……”
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