You might find this interesting if you don't already know that Karzai is/was an employee of an Oil Firm ( Unocal Oil) that wanted to build a pipeline connecting Far East Asia, through Afghanistan and onto the Gasline routes that are in place today. Back in 95-96 Taliban leaders were in Washington to discuss the issue and agreement was never reached. Then 9/11 happened (a tragedy), and today they have a puppet regime in place in Afghanistan, thus removing the hurdle of Taliban Govt from back in the day who had refused on a agreement, the contents of which are probably not public. .
So what has stopped Unocal from laying this pipeline now...... after all the "puppet" has been in place for last so many years now and they had their own man Pakistan also ....... i am not too aware of this but what existing Gasline route was this pipeline going to connect to .......