Documents / FOIA release
This is an unclassified, For Official Use Only news compilation produced by the US Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Office and distributed by the Open Source Center on 15 August 2015. It was later approved for release by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018. It gathers Afghan, Pakistani and international press reports on an anti-Pakistan protest in Washington, China's support for Afghan peace talks, the combat debut of Afghan MD-530 helicopters, hostage releases in Ghazni and unemployment in Kunduz. It contains nothing about UFOs.
“Cooper”6 pages
Print Mcssagc(s) Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887 V1 Page 4| of 49 ~ ' -UNCLASSlFlEDI7"P@U"6" i Ai. Abbottabad. The completion of the motorways‘ network will help to shorten the distance as well as reduce travelling time between the two neighboring countries; Besides Afghanistan, businessmen and traders from Central Asian states will also_benefit from the corridor A T as they can easily export their goods to Middle East and European Countries through Gwadar Port. Apart from improving road. connectivity, China—Pak Economic Corridor will also generate economic - - . ~» - ’ b _ opportunities as well as play a vital role in economic integration of ‘ . the region and countries like Iran and Central Asian States will be able to benefit from this project. The corridor is, hopefully, -destined to bring rapid industrialization as well as greater investment to Pakistan which would have certainly healthy impact on Afghan economy. The Afghan businessmen and traders as well as general ' “ public will be in position to capitalize upon the emerging economic opportunities as a result of materialization of the corridor. CPEC has a greater regional and economic value as it would encourage other ' , ' 'L regional countries including Central Asian States to follow suit by entering into similar arrangement with China. The project has enormous potential to reshape the economic outlook of the regional countries. . . Improving road connectivity and infrastructure development in Afghanistan are the major priorities of Pakistan. In this regard, Pakistan has undertaken a number of projects including 75Km Torkham—Jalalabad Road and 46 km road between Peshawar and Torkham. The Peshawar—Torkham road has almost been completed whereas the second lane of Jalalabad-Torkham road will, hopefully, be completed within_a year. In order to further facilitate Afghan transit trade and boost Pak—Afghan trade, Pakistan has constructed two roads leading from D.I. Khan to Angoor Adda and Ghulam Khan linking Paktika. ‘ and Khost provinces of Afghanistan respectively. These strategic trade links, built by_Pakistan, will enormously facilitate the trade - » and transit links between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Apart from the above—mentioned roads, plans are afoot to construct motorway between Kabul and Peshawar_and the homework on this project - _ _ _ - has already started. Similarly, laying Railway lines between Peshawar ' ' - and Jalalabad and Chaman and Spin Boldak is also the priority of - . A ., ‘UNCLASSHWEDHF9U6"” '“ _V A ' ' - ‘ - ' 8/23/2017 Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887
Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 49 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.