For years, Afghanistan has sought a direct trade and transit route to China through the Wakhan Corridor, a narrow, mountainous strip of land in the country’s far northeast and its only direct geographical connection to China. Taliban now say they are making progress toward that goal. The Taliban-run Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development said on June 16 that construction work on the Wakhan road was 75 percent complete and that the proj…
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