Trans-Afghan railway to connect Uzbekistan with Pakistan
Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan will sign a joint protocol on Tuesday (today) to connect the Uzbek rail network with Pakistan Railways. The route for this connection will pass through Termiz in Uzbekistan, Mazar-i-Sharif and Logar in Afghanistan, and culminate in Pakistan via the Kharlachi border crossing in Kurram. This route was finalised in a meeting of a trilateral working group of the three countries on the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (UAP) railways project, in Islamabad on Monday. This was the second meeting of the working group since January this year. The Ministry of Railways, in an announcement following the meeting, stated that the UAP railway project would not only facilitate regional, transit, and bilateral trade amongst participating countries, but would also provide better people-to-people connections in the entire region.