Iran and Pakistan have agreed to resume rail freight transport between the provincial capitals of the two neighbors’ border regions. The two sides agreed to recommence rail freight transport between Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-Baluchistan in Iran’s southeast and Quetta, the main city in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province.
The deal reopens route for weekly freight train transport which has mostly been blocked over the past few years.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Islamabad and Tehran had signed an agreement to increase their annual trade volume to USD 5 billion by 2021.
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