Pakistan, July 17 -- Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar is visiting Kabul for a single day to sign a key railway agreement with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. The agreement will finalize the Framework for a Joint Feasibility Study of the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (UAP) Railway Project. This signing marks an important step forward in linking South and Central Asia. The Foreign Office (FO) called the project a "major move toward regional integration."

The proposed railway line will begin in Termiz, Uzbekistan, and pass through Afghanistan's major cities-Mazar-i-Sharif and Logar. It will then enter Pakistan through the Kharlachi border crossing in Kurram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The 760-kilometre route will connect landlocked Central Asian ...