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By Eurasianet A dormant project to build high-voltage power lines from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to electricity-starved Afghanistan and Pakistan has sputtered back to life. Last month, the World Bank signalled that it would resume providing support for the $1.2bn Central Asia-South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project, better known as CASA-1000, after it received requests to do so from Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. “Construction in [Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan] is nearly complete and these countries have requested that CASA-1000 activities in Afghanistan resume to avo…

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