India flagged off a shipment of wheat for Afghanistan through Iran’s Chabahar port.
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- With this, the port has started its operations of the trans-shipment of goods from India to the landlocked country.
- The shipment is part of commitment made by the Government of India to supply 1.1 million tonnes of wheat for the people of Afghanistan on grant basis
- In 2003 that India and Iran first agreed to develop the Chabahar port, located in the Gulf of Oman near Iran’s border with Pakistan.
- Chabahar port is also less than 100km from Pakistan’s Chinese-built port of Gwadar, which is part of the China-Pakistan-Economic Corridor project (CPEC).