Why are you guys confusing two very different things here?
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Transit route - Things made in other countries are shipped overland through Pakistan to/from Central asia
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Preferential trade agreement between Pakistan and other countries.
#1 is acceptable. It is already happening through Afghan transit trade agreement and other future agreements about Pakistan-as-transit-corridor for the Central Asia.
#2 is unacceptable. We should NOT give the preferential trade agreement to CHINA, India, Thailand, Philippines and other countries where labor is dirt cheap compared to ours.
The biggest culprit that has brought total destruction to Pakistan’s industry is CHINA.
So we should totally regulated cheep goods from China. Otherwise our industry (or whatever is left of it) will totally disappear.