Taliban Agrees With China, Pakistan to Bring Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan

Taliban Agrees With China, Pakistan to Bring Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan
A loaded truck travels through a newly built tunnel in northern Pakistan's Gojal Valley on Sept. 29, 2015. Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images
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The Taliban has agreed to extend China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects to Afghanistan and pledged to deepen trilateral cooperation with China and Pakistan to achieve “win-win results.”

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang held talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Islamabad on May 6.