EghtesadOnline: Afghanistan has urged India to speed up development of Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar which is on a course to open a transport corridor to landlocked Central Asian nations.

EghtesadOnline: As per a recently forged memorandum of understanding between officials from Chabahar Free Trade Zone and the Sharif University of Technology, the prestigious academic institute is to provide the FTZ with technological assistance and the two are to jointly establish a development studies center.

EghtesadOnline: Iran is expected “very soon” to approach India’s Exim Bank seeking disbursement of the first tranche of $150 million loan to fast-track the development of Chabahar Port.