TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, February 4. Uzbekistan
and Pakistan have agreed to develop an alternative
Karachi-Kashgar-Osh-Andijan transport route, Trend reports via the
Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade of Uzbekistan.
The agreement was reached during the 10th Session of the
Pakistan–Uzbekistan Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) on Trade,
Economic, and Scientific-Technical Cooperation. The session was
held under the co-chairmanship of Haroon Akhtar Khan, Special
Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for Industries and
Production, and Laziz Kudratov, Minister of Investment, Industry,
and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
In addition, the sides reached agreements on the establishment
of joint ventures in the textile industry, as well as on the
development of cooperation projects in geology, pharmaceuticals,
and food security.
The Karachi-Kashgar-Osh-Andijan route is a multimodal transit
corridor linking Pakistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. It is
designed to connect Pakistan’s port of Karachi with Uzbekistan’s
Andijan region via China’s Kashgar and Kyrgyzstan’s Osh, providing
Central Asia with an alternative access to maritime routes while
diversifying regional logistics and trade flows.
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