ISLAMABAD — Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan signed a framework agreement last week to build a railway line connecting landlocked Central Asia to Pakistani seaports, although analysts say the financing of the project remains unclear.
The governments signed the plan for a feasibility study on July 17 to build the so-called UAP Railway Corridor that will extend an existing link between Termez in Uzbekistan and Naibabad in Afghanistan to Kurram district in northwest Pakistan. From there, a 192-kilometer railway track will be built by Pakistan to connect with the local railway system which runs to Karachi port in the south.
