Central Asia’s plan to bypass Russia and Iran? Railways through Afghanistan and Pakistan
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 … Read More
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