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The New 'Silk Road' of Death.(heroin smuggling)
Col. Ulbaidulo Ahmadov climbs out of his rickety Soviet-era military vehicle. Ahead, down a long hillside of parched grass and across the shallow river Pandj, is Afghanistan, the source of roughly 75 percent of the world's heroin. Keeping it out of Tajikistan is Ahmadov's job. As commander of the 240-member Second Border Brigade, he's responsible for this 100-kilometer stretch of frontier. Dressed in mismatched camouflage fatigues and shower sandals, he gestures toward the river glittering in the distance. "I'd take you down there," he apologizes, "but I've run out of gas."
The heroin trade has no such problem. Mullah Omar, the patriarch of Afghanistan's ...
- Silk Road policy.(Central Asia as rich source of minerals and energy)
- Magazine article from: Mining Magazine Nishikawa, Yuji April 1, 1999 700+ words
...metals and energy The Silk Road served as the main transport...progressing rapidly, Central Asia is now in the spotlight...heartland of the 'Modern Silk Road of the 21st Century...advanced aggressively in Central Asia in order to supply raw...
- On the silk road: China and Central Asia. (trade relations)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 23, 1994 700+ words
CENTRAL ASIA has hardly seen such a Chinese...Mr Li referred to the Silk Road that once united China and...Now we want to build a new Silk Road to make our relations even...Trade between China and Central Asia has boomed since the collapse...
- Helen Wang. Money on the Silk Road: The Evidence from Eastern Central Asia to...
- Magazine article from: Antiquity Bhandare, Shailendra March 1, 2006 700+ words
...Money on the Silk Road: the evidence from eastern central Asia to c. AD...from Eastern Central Asia'. The book...introduction to the 'Silk Road' and the...along the Silk Road. The conclusion...from Eastern Central Asia in the British...
- An RGS Fellow has set off from Beijing to retrace the Silk Road to Italy, via...
- Magazine article from: Geographical Amodeo, Christian April 1, 2006 700+ words
An RGS Fellow has set off from Beijing to retrace the Silk Road to Italy, via Central Asia and the Middle East. Using public transport, Roger Gilboy will cross 17 countries and raise funds for Sobell House, an Oxford...
- Central Asia: the Silk Road catches fire.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 26, 1992 700+ words
...the burning desert of Central Asia, it is a reminder of...turned an oasis on the Silk Road into one of the world...of another aspect of Central Asia: that it was here that...invasion of Afghanistan. Central Asia remains a strategic...
- UN LAUNCHES CENTRAL ASIA SILK ROAD CITY AWARDS.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News December 16, 2008 700+ words
...Programme (UNDP) formally launched the UN Silk Road City Awards Scheme in Madrid, part of the Silk Road Initiative (SRI) which is to be implemented...trade, investment and tourism for the Silk Road region. The Initiative involves China...
- The new silk road: mediators and tourism development in Central Asia.
- Magazine article from: Ethnology Werner, Cynthia March 22, 2003 700+ words
...role of mediators in two post-Soviet Central Asia states: Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan...are cultivating a positive image of Central Asia as a new tourist destination, developing...competition. (Tourism, development, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan...
- U.S. engagement in Central Asia and the Caucasus: staying our course along the...
- Magazine article from: DISAM Journal Jones, Beth June 22, 2003 700+ words
...with the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Opening...important interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus beyond...History shows that the Silk Road was not only a trade...Iraq, we engaged in Central Asia and the Caucasus well...
