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Source: PTI   India will host a major conference on Wednesday aimed at bringing peace and stability to war-ravaged Afghanistan and speeding up its reconstruction with a focus on boosting investment and enhancing connectivity to the country. The 'Heart of Asia' (HoA) conference, to be attended by officials of a number of countries including Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry, is likely to deliberate on a host of issues such a combating challenge of extremism and terrorism. The key elements of HoA process have been to devise a sustained, incremental approach to implementation of the confidence building measures (CBM) in Afghanistan and the officials are set to deliberate on them during the conference. Energy, infrastructure and investment deals to shore up economic growth of Afghanistan ...

The Dollar Business Bureau As India asserted its commitment for an increased cooperation with Afghanistan, the latter also seems to be making moves in a similar direction to enhance trade with India. This became evident in a recent move by Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, who asked Pakistan to open up ways for Afghanistan imports from India. The Afghan president was said to have cautioned Pakistan saying, “If Pakistan does not open up the Wagah land transit for Afghan imports from India, Afghanistan could take counter measures.” Signalling that Afghanistan was upset with Pakistan’s moves, the president was quoted to have said in a report, “We will not provide equal transit access to Central Asia (for Pakistani trucks).” During his ...