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Related News ItemsAfghanistan: Don’t Overlook the Other Regional CasualtyWed, 23 May 2012 11:19:35 -0700
Copyright show: No NATO leaders missed an opportunity during their recent summit in Chicago. In addition to trying to garner international support for an Afghanistan drawdown and stabilization strategy, they also should have considered the overlooked toll that the Afghan campaign has taken on the adjacent Central Asian states. read more
Read More... TAPI gas pipeline will buttress regional co-operation: expertsWed, 23 May 2012 06:06:37 -0700
New Delhi, May 23 (ANI): The multi-billion dream of the Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India (TAPI) gas pipeline moved a step closer to realisation on Wednesday.
Read More... Turkmenistan in deals to pipe gas across AfghanistanWed, 23 May 2012 01:34:11 -0700
AVAZA, Turkmenistan (Reuters) - Turkmenistan agreed on Wednesday to supply natural gas to Pakistan and India in deals that offer major economic benefits to all three countries but depend on building and defending a U.S.-backed pipeline across chronically unstable Afghanistan. The route, particularly the 735-km (450-mile) leg through the Afghan provinces of Herat and Kandahar, will need billions ...
Read More... Central Asia Key to Afghanistan Heroin Smuggling – UNODCFri, 18 May 2012 09:10:09 -0700
A new report by the United Nations drug agency sheds light on the nuts and bolts of narcotics transit from Afghanistan through Central Asia, highlighting the former Soviet republics’ lackluster efforts at interdiction. The 106-page report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), released this month, describes how smugglers traffic heroin and opium from Afghanistan, the world’s largest ...
Read More... Turkmenistan signs first contracts for Asia pipelineWed, 23 May 2012 09:06:25 -0700
Turkmenistan on Wednesday signed agreements with India and Pakistan to deliver gas through a new pipeline that will transit Afghanistan, the first contracts in the ambitious project.
Read More... Turkmenistan signs natural gas deal with Pakistan, India for cross-Afghanistan pipelineWed, 23 May 2012 01:09:50 -0700
By The Associated Press ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan signed a natural gas deal with Pakistan and India on Wednesday, in a significant boost to the proposed construction of a 1,800-kilometre (1,100-mile) ...
Read More... PM signs new Afghanistan dealMon, 21 May 2012 06:30:00 -0700
AUSTRALIA has dramatically increased its foreign aid to Afghanistan and signed a new "partnership agreement" guaranteeing support for the impoverished country.
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