Uzbekistan is betting that cooperation with the Afghanistan and the Taliban on infrastructure projects will pay off.

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov has arrived in Afghanistan in the highest-level visit by a foreign official since the Taliban returned to power three years ago.

The proposed Trans-Afghan Railway has become the second most strategically important initiative for Uzbekistan after the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway, according to Deputy Minister of ...

Uzbekistan, on the other hand, has been the region's leader in recent years in battling Islamic militants headquartered in Afghanistan and affiliated with Osama bin Laden. With U.S. help ...

The Uzbeks and their Central Asian neighbors, including Afghanistan, seek international diplomatic and economic support for new transport and infrastructure projects to connect their region with ...

Other Uzbek products travel all the way to the Baltic Sea for export. What Tashkent covets is a more direct route through Afghanistan directly to the Pakistani port of Karachi, on the Arabian Sea.

Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday in the highest-level visit by a foreign official since the Taliban returned to power three years ago. Aripov, heading a ...