Despite the fact that guerrillas often block traffic on the two principal roads that link Kabul with those countries, causing shortages, the supplies arrive.

A main road linking Kabul to Pakistan runs through the province.

Eleven days ago disputes within one opposition faction closed the road linking Kabul with Pakistan, the last supply route into the city.

An example of this is the vesting of the new internal air services linking Kabul with many formerly remote areas in the official Afghan Air Authority.

A road project linking Kabul, the capital, to Kandahar, the largest southern city, began last month.

In late January 2010, Afghan protesters took to the streets for three straight days and blocked traffic on a highway that links Kabul and Kandahar.

It is located on the Khyber Pass, the highway that links Kabul and Peshawar.

Because it linked Kabul to the Soviet homeland, the Termez road was maintained when tank columns were tearing up the others.

Until then, Americans had rebuilt the main highway linking Kabul and Kandahar, after initially rejecting the road proposal by Mr. Finn, the ambassador.

The city is in a valley on a strategic road that links Kabul, the Afghan capital, with Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan.