{"id":6516,"date":"2026-02-10T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/10\/uzbekistan-joins-trans-afghan-railway-project\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:30:23","slug":"uzbekistan-joins-trans-afghan-railway-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/10\/uzbekistan-joins-trans-afghan-railway-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan Officially Joins Trans-Afghan Railway Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the President of Uzbekistan, has officially signed the decree approving the country&#8217;s participation in the regional Trans-Afghan Railway project and ratified the framework agreement concerning the feasibility of the project.<\/p>\n<p>According to Uzbek media reports, this agreement is a trilateral document between Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, originally signed on July 17, 2025, and now officially endorsed by Tashkent, moving the project into the implementation phase.<\/p>\n<p>The cooperation agreement was signed between Uzbekistan&#8217;s Ministry of Transport, Afghanistan&#8217;s Ministry of Public Works, and Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Railways. Its aim is to conduct technical and economic assessments of a railway route connecting Central Asia to South Asia through Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Trans-Afghan Railway project, considered a significant regional initiative, has the potential to enhance Afghanistan&#8217;s role as a transit corridor. However, in recent years, given the country&#8217;s political and administrative situation, the project has faced persistent implementation challenges, along with demands for transparency and practical guarantees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbekistan officially joins the Trans-Afghan Railway project, signing a trilateral agreement with Afghanistan and Pakistan to connect Central and South Asia by rail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}