About 150km north of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, workers were recently putting the final touches to a bridge that is part of a new stretch of road linking the country to Kyrgyzstan.
The construction work, which started in late 2004, is testimony to the efforts under way to upgrade landlocked Tajikistan’s poor road system, which still bears the marks of the lengthy civil war that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
