Article #251041

South China Morning Post - World News

South China Morning Post - World News

Title Central Asia’s plan to bypass Russia and Iran? Railways through Afghanistan and Pakistan Source South China Morning Post - World News
Description Central Asia has long been someone else’s crossroads. Squeezed between an overbearing Russia to the north and an increasingly unstable Iran to the west, the region’s landlocked ex-Soviet republics have settled on a different solution: send railways south, through Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, all the way to the Arabian Sea. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan – Central Asia’s two largest economies – have in recent months struck preliminary multilateral agreements for the construction of two...
Link https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3344798/central-asias-plan-bypass-russia-and-iran-railways-through-afghanistan-and-pakistan?utm_source=rss_feed Published At 2026-02-27 21:00:14 (2 weeks ago)
Created At 2026-02-27 21:04:29 Updated At 2026-02-27 21:04:29