Representatives of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy the railway company for Kazakhstan recently has a very important meeting with officials in India. Kazakhstan is a country that needs to be closely watched by the West because they are making rapid advancements especially in the are of railways. Kazakhstan recently just discussed the possibility of a construction of a North- South corridor basically… Read more »
With all the fanfare that accompanied the recent start to work on the Afghanistan section of TAPI – the pipeline that Turkmenistan hopes will one day pump its natural gas to markets in South Asia – another equally speculative but potentially momentous development was largely overlooked. Communicating with a construction site via satellite feed from a train station in southeast Turkmenistan on… Read more »
Sometimes a corruption case is about more than just the corruption. The downfall of Kuandyk Bishimbayev is a story about how Kazakhstan continues to struggle to uproot graft and how the scourge has been handed on seamlessly to a generation in which the elite had placed great hopes of a more transparent future. Bishimbayev was detained by anti-corruption agents in… Read more »
Alittle girl dressed in pink, maybe three years old, is smiling through a rip in a tarpaulin. She is leaning against the bamboo pole holding up her home. Below her is a 15-foot drop, straight down to a dried-up riverbed. The steep valleys across the huge Rohingya refugee camps are a growing concern as Bangladesh’s monsoon season approaches. Last summer,… Read more »
The registration of candidates as part of a campaign for the upcoming election of members of parliament, as well as local authorities to be held March 25 in Turkmenistan has been completed in the country. A total of 284 candidates have been nominated for the election of members of parliament, and local authorities (halk maslahati): regional – 489 candidates, district… Read more »
It was interesting to see what Asia will put at the top of its list when regarding foreign policy. One of the biggest things that will be essential to the prosperity of central Asia will be its regional cooperation. They expect that the economy overall in the central Asia will grow at 2.7 % economic rate. Central Asia will also… Read more »
Beijing has warned against “stirring up trouble” in the South China Sea after Britain vowed to send a warship through the heart of disputed waters next month. Gavin Williamson, British Defence Secretary, said HMS Sutherland, an anti-submarine frigate, would sail through the sea on its way home from Australia to assert freedom of navigation rights. “She’ll be sailing through the… Read more »
In an unexpected overture at a time of increasing bloodshed in Afghanistan, the Taliban have published an open letter expressing a desire for peace talks and calling on the “American people” and “peace-loving congressmen” to pressurise the Donald Trump administration into negotiations. The letter, released by the Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, comes amid deteriorating conditions for US and Afghan coalition… Read more »
Pakistan is building a fence along its border with Afghanistan, and it wants Donald Trump to pay for it – or at least some of it. The 1,800-mile barrier being constructed will help end “the prolonged agony” of the Afghan war and reduce terrorism inside Pakistan, said Nasir Khan Janjua, the national security adviser to Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the prime… Read more »
More than 10,000 civilians were killed or injured in the violent attacks in the war in Afghanistan last year, the United Nations has said. The annual report released on 15 February by the UN’s mission in Afghanistan (Unama) showed the figure had dropped by 9% in 2017, compared with the previous year. “The chilling statistics in this report provide credible… Read more »