This much was obvious to anyone with basic knowledge of economics, world trade and geography.
"We are a route between Central Asian and India and Shiet ". What are the logistical and insurance costs of trucks going through the war torn mountains and crevices of Afghanistan, KPK and paki punjab to India and back? Forget about railroads, which are impossible through Afghan terrain. What is the market size of central Asia in terms of dollars, that would warrant this foolhardy trade route? Now compare the Chabahar route, which goes through a stable Iran on mild terrain, connects directly to peaceful central asia, and down to the port, with a direct sea route to Gujarat.
Now for trade overall, compare this central Asia chutiyapa to direct bulk sea trade between India and the US, EU and East Asia: cost difference per ton per kilometer.
"Central Asia has cheap gas which we can provide through TAPI" Only someone high on afghan opium will think that reying on a pipeline that goes through the war torn tribal ganglands of Afghanistan, KPK and paki plains for your energy needs, is anything close to rational. Any random gang of abduls can destroy any section of this theoretical pipeline for any number of reasons, which would thereby cripple a large section of energy supply to India, if TAPI became a reality. Hell, it would give the pakis significant blackmailing power over India, which is why they pitched it in the first place back in the day, under the delusion that Indians are equally inbred and retarded as them to fall for such a farce.
"India needs our markeeeet" What fucking market? For exports, we expect dollars. You can't even cough up 1.5 billion dollars to save your entire country, what will you pay India with for our products? We don't want worthless PKR or Yuan. We want hard US dollars, which you don't have. Normalization of trade won't fix the pakis dollar problem as they have nothing to export to India, and without dollars, they have no currency to import anything from India.
There is nothing pakistan can offer India even if it hits its head on a rock and somehow abandons all its anti India lunacy.