The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has earmarked tourism as a cross-border development opportunity and is now working to create methods for Tajik and Afghanistani SMEs in the area to take advantage of it but there is a very long way to go indeed.
A very big prize is on offer. The AKDN’s chosen venue, the Wakhan Corridor, originally created by the British as a buffer between its
Indian (now Pakistan) interests and China, is a stunningly beautiful wilderness. On the one side of the river Afghanistan and on the other, Tajikistan – divided in 1925, kept separate and patrolled vigorously, latterly by the KGB, until 2006. The AKDN sees the potential for this area for tourism, economic development and, perhaps, harmony and is working to realize this.
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