Just a few kilometres away from Kurram is Afghanistan, which serves as the threshold for Central Asian landlocked countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. These countries have no coastline or access to the ocean. Their imports and exports are primarily conducted through land routes. Among these countries, Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country. These countries have at least land access to the world for their day-to-day business.
I don’t know what to call a region having no land access to the rest of the world. One would say there exists no such a region. But there is. The Kurram district of KPK. This hapless region has been cut off from the rest of the world for the last three months, making it look like Gaza or even worse as funds and aid, in Gaza, sent by the international community, are allowed, although not at a large scale.
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