The 217 km Dilaram-Zaranj Highway now links Chabahar with Afghanistan's 2,100 km Ring Road System connecting Herat, Kandahar, Kabul and Mazar-e-Shareef.

Hot winds from the Hindu Kush blew across the grass runway of Kabul airport last week as a sleek Russian TU-104 jet airliner touched down, bringing slim, weathered King Mohammed Zahir Shah back ...