In a boost for regional trade, Pakistan and Uzbekistan traded goods through Afghanistan for the first time earlier this month. But there are still many hurdles to greater economic integration.
As NATO forces begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan, some clerics and Islamist groups sympathetic to the Afghan Taliban are accused of intensifying efforts to solicit support for the militant group.
In a boost for regional trade, Pakistan and Uzbekistan traded goods through Afghanistan for the first time earlier this month. But there are still many hurdles to greater economic integration.