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5 October 2016,

India Slow to Expand Iran Port as China Races Ahead at Rival Hub

Sameer Patil, Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict, and Terrorism Studies, was quoted in an article by Bloomberg on the Chabahar Port in Iran

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Below is the quote from Sameer,

Months after the ceremony in May and pledges by India to inject $500 million into the project, the much-heralded port of Chabahar remains a sleepy outpost – as well as a shadow of the Chinese-built port of Gwadar, 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the east across Iran’s border with Pakistan.

“What you’re seeing is the problem with many of the Indian commitments abroad,” said Sameer Patil, an analyst at Gateway House, a research organization in Mumbai. “Once a prime minister makes that commitment, the parties find it difficult to move the process forward. The Indian bureaucracy takes its sweet time.”

Read the full article here.

The article was republished by NDTV, Dawn, Angreji News, Pakistan Today, Pioneer News, The Washington Post, Sea News Turkey, International Maritime Information Website, Baomoi, and Bao Giao Thong.

Sameer’s comment was also featured in an article by China Topix, which can be found here.