Abstract: The strategic region of Afghanistan is again been subjected to The Great Game, which has been played for centuries by the western powers on one side and Russians in their various political manifestations on the other.
The author was in Afghanistan as engineer-in-charge for the supervision of Road Improvement Project of part of the North-South Highway including repair of Salang Tunnel funded by the World Bank.
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