India and Afghanistan will operationalise a dedicated air cargo link over Pakistan in the next couple of days. This will help increase bilateral trade hampered by their troubled ties with Pakistan, which disallows Indian goods along the road route.
“The freight corridor between India and Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a reality,” Ministry of External Affairs (MoEA) spokesperson Gopal Baglay told reporters here.
The spokesperson said the decision to have a "dedicated freight corridor" and overcome the difficulties between India and landlocked-Afghanistan was taken during Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's visit to India in December last year.
"The idea of establishing a dedicated air freight corridor was taken in view of the difficulties that we have on the ground in terms of connectivity between the two countries. At the moment, the idea is to try and see if this can be with a frequency of, let us say, a month or every fortnight," he said.
The road link between the two countries passes through Pakistan, which allows only Afghanistan to send a limited amount of goods to India.
