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CASA-1000 power line project suspended
The CASA-1000, a $1.2 billion project to build a power line between Central Asia and South Asia has been suspended due to the economic and humanitarian crises in Afghanistan.
The project aims to allow Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan which have an extensive network of hydroelectric power plants to sell excess energy to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the summer months.
Faizali Samiyev, the head of the Tajik project implementation office, said work on the project, originally scheduled to be completed next year, continued in three countries, but not in Afghanistan, Reuters reported.
Funding for the CASA-1000 project – which was designed to provide Pakistan with 1,000 megawatts (MW) of power and Afghanistan with 300 MW – has been suspended, Samiyev said.
“(We hope that) contacts will be established with the Afghan side and ways to implement the project will be worked out,” he said.
Abdul Latif Nazari, Afghanistan’s deputy minister of economy, said that the government will pave the way for the implementation of CASA-1000 project in Afghanistan.
The World Bank, a key CASA-1000 backer, continues financing projects in Afghanistan, but is focusing on urgently needed education, agriculture, health and family programmes and is disbursing money through United Nations agencies and international aid groups.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce has announced that a high-level delegation from Uzbekistan, comprising government officials and private sector representatives, led by Jamshid Khojaev, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, arrived in Kabul on Saturday.
According to the ministry’s statement, the delegation was welcomed at Kabul International Airport by Nooruddin Azizi, Minister of Industry and Commerce.
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce added that the purpose of the Uzbek delegation’s visit to Kabul is to hold meetings and discussions with officials of the Islamic Emirate and representatives of Afghanistan’s private sector, as well as to participate in the trade forum.
Sadin Ayyıldız, Chargé d’Affaires of the Turkish Embassy in Kabul, held a courtesy meeting on Saturday with Attaullah Omari, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The Turkish Embassy in Kabul said in a post on X that during the meeting, the two sides held constructive and fruitful discussions on expanding cooperation in the agriculture sector.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday renewed his call for Afghanistan to take action against militant groups, saying Afghan territory should not be used to launch attacks against Pakistan.
“Pakistan shares over 2,600-kilometre border with its neighbour and has repeatedly urged the Afghan authorities to act against terrorist organisations and prevent Afghan territory from being used against Pakistan,” Sharif said speaking at an event in Balochistan province. “However, the Afghan interim government has failed to take effective action against these groups.”
Pakistan has repeatedly accused the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan of failing to curb the activities of militant groups that Islamabad says carry out attacks inside Pakistan. The Islamic Emirate has consistently rejected the allegations, insisting that Afghan territory is not used against any country and calling on Pakistan to address its own security challenges internally.
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