Ever since 1947, Pakistani lefties and commies have been jumping up and down for the trade with Russians.
The reality is that Russian economy and Russian strategic interests DO NOT match with Pakistan.
Therefore it never worked out for Pakistan to get any long term benefit from them. In fact Indians the biggest crock for Ruskies have dumped Russia for pretty much the same reasons.
Funny that 50-80% of trade surplus of India, china, S. Korea, Singapore, Japan is with the USA and EU. The biggest export destination for Pakistani products is the USA.
Russia is trying its level best to continue the anarchy in Afghanistan just so that the central Asian resources remain under Ruskie thumb.
But Pakistan's leftie and socialist intellectuals will keep on singing Ruskie songs. da da da dadadada dada dasvidania.
I Kind a agree on this again, every time i have to central Asia, i always had feeling that i am on an other planet or something and was never comfortable while discussing any contract with them. To me we can have a different kind of trade with Russians, i do understand that it will increase our weight in the global arena while having Russians on our side or at minimum not against us...
Unlike West, Russians have never dumped their allies, they have always stood their ground and tried their best to protect them.
Now if we can have Russia to get better terms from US and West!!! as the last thing USA would like to see is, we getting in Russian Camp.. they already have problems with our Chinese partnerships.. having ties with Russia will only give us strong grounds to negotiate.
Secondly, Russia have great influence on the central asian state, we can use that influence to boost our trade relationship with these countries, we can offer them our ports and trade routes for trading... last time when i was in one of the CIS states, I met a cement guy who said, they like to import cement from Pakistan, but they have to buy it from Afhganies who sell them at high price..