A road to riches.(Tajikistan building road to China)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: August 1, 1998 | Copyright information

Tajikistan

ONE small though significant part of the Silk Road-that once-glorious artery of east-west trade-is being rebuilt. In Tajikistan, on the southern fringes of the ex-Soviet Union, 250 shift-workers are slowly bulldozing a 32-kilometre (20-mile) road from Murgab in the Pamir mountains, eastwards across the rock, salt and sand wilderness of no-man's land, towards China. Tajikistan was the poorest Soviet republic even before the outbreak of a long civil war in 1992. The...

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