Global Brief, 2009-11-01: Peering, head above the parapet, into Afghanistan’s next 10 years.

The Islamabad conference focussed on rail projects – extending Pakistani lines from Quetta and Peshawar to Kandahar and Jalalabad inside Afghanistan, then linking them onwards via a railway shadowing the ring road highway to lines now approaching completion in Herat and contemplated for Hairatan-Mazar-i-Sharif.