Pakistan-Iran-Central Asia trade transport route inaugurated

Iran (left) and Pakistan flags [Captured from Pakistan's daily Dawn = Provided by Yonhap News] [Captured from Pakistan's daily Dawn = Provided by Yonhap News] A trade and transport route connecting Pakistan, Iran, and Central Asia has been opened. According to Turkish news agency Anadolu and others on the 14th, Pakistan sent a shipment of domestically produced frozen meat to Uzbekistan in Central Asia for the first time via the Pakistan-Iran transport corridor on the 10th. The shipment went to Pakistan's Gwadar port and then traveled through Iran by land to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Gwadar port is also part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key infrastructure project of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, which connects China, Central Asia, and Europe by land and sea). Earlier, Pakistan relaxed its own export regulations to allow domestically produced food and medicines, among other things, to be exported to Central Asia via Iran. Professor Husain ...