TAPI Pipeline: A Path To Peace In Afghanistan?
January 2nd, 2016
Via the New Yorker, a look at the TAPI pipeline: When, on December 10th, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani returned to Kabul from Islamabad, he was greeted by a Taliban attack that killed more than fifty people at the Kandahar airbase and the resignation of his intelligence chief, Rahmatullah Nabil, who cited a “lack of agreement […]
Read more »The Afghanistan Land Bridge Is Finally Here
December 21st, 2015
Via Foreign Policy, some commentary on a long-awaited gas pipeline that could bring prosperity and stability to some of the poorest countries in Central and South Asia: One of the world’s most quixotic energy projects finally kicked off this month, with the formal groundbreaking of the so-called TAPI pipeline meant to tap into the gas fields […]
Read more »Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Pipeline
December 15th, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of latest developments regarding TAPI: Two workmen stand next to the symbolic first piece of a natural gas pipeline to China outside of Turkmenabat in 2007. Summary Turkmenistan has some of the largest natural gas reserves in the world, but as a landlocked country it has struggled to transport […]
Read more »Turkmenistan’s Gas Line: A Pipe Dream?
July 16th, 2015
Via BBC, an article on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) gas pipeline: For many, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) gas pipeline is nothing but a pipe dream. Its starting point is in Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated and closed-for-business states in the world, before it goes through war-torn Afghanistan and then reaches two countries that are hard to describe […]
Read more »InFrontier Takes Stake In Afghan Pharmacy Chain
July 2nd, 2015
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on a British private equity company that has taken a stake in an Afghan pharmacy chain: A British private equity company has taken a stake in an Afghan pharmacy chain in a deal touted as evidence that the country is opening to business and foreign capital in spite of […]
Read more »Islamic State Eying Afghanistan’s Natural Resources
June 29th, 2015
Via The Diplomat, a report on how an expansion of the group’s operations in Afghanistan could threaten the fledgling mining industry: According to a recent Pentagon report, the Islamic State’s (IS) activities in Afghanistan remain exploratory, with limited recruiting efforts. Although the capabilities of the Islamic State’s recently minted Khorasan Province may be limited, the group […]
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