Uzbekistan has hosted a conference on Central Asia-South Asia trade connections. But recent Taliban advances raise doubts about developing such a trade network through Afghanistan in the near future.

The growing interest in South Asia is no coincidence—it is the fastest-growing region in the world. In 2024, South Asia’s GDP reached $4.9 trillion, accounting for approximately 4.5% of global ...

Two major initiatives under connectivity project to link Central and South Asia which if implemented would have brought qualitative changes in the two regions are: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan ...

CASA-1000 is a short name for the Central Asia-South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Program. This is the first step towards creating the Regional Electricity Market which will leverage ...

The proposed CASA-1000 project is one of these initatives and is the most advanced among others under CASAREM (Central Asia South Asia Regional Electricity Market). Read the latest correspondence on ...

The Netflix hit has left a lasting legacy as a major cultural export, but also one that exposed some unsettling aspects of ...

Examples of the dynamic regional policy include the trilateral negotiations on transportation interconnectivity between Central Asia and South Asia, which took place in Tashkent on Feb. 2, with ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has maps of major world forests. These maps represent current global forest cover. ... South Asia, South Pacific and Central Asia.

China’s “One Belt, One Road” project aims to make central Asia more connected to the world, yet even before the initiative was formally announced China had helped to redraw the energy map of ...

This 1491 map is the best surviving map of the world as Christopher Columbus knew it as he made his first voyage across the Atlantic. In fact, Columbus likely used a copy of it in planning his ...

A high-ranking Taliban delegation visited Turkmenistan on Feb. 6, promising to support the project, an indication the U.S., which backs the pipeline, may have facilitated the trip.