NEW US SILK ROUTE PROJECT FOR POST-2014 AFGHANISTAN: MYTH OR REALITY

Summary/Abstract: Among other alternatives for conflict resolution and empowerment of Afghanistan, is the new US Silk Route project. It aims at Afghanistan’s intra-regional and trans-border trade with Central and South Asia after 2014. However, the present article argues that the project is hard to realize due to some inextricable political, security and technical complications. Nonetheless, these can be redressed through the disproportionate involvement of, cordial relations between and mutual cooperation among all the regional and global stakeholders in the proposed regional and economic integration project.

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