Afghanistan has something like $1T worth of lithium reserves. Who gets access and how it ends up being exploited remains to be seen but that country is not going to become some forgotten backwater anytime soon.
Fun neighborhood. Nothing could go wrong with the above countries fighting for their share of Afghanistan's mineral resources.
I'm guessing India would claim that it does. Pakistan would argue otherwise.
Which is not that great if you intend to export raw bulk goods (e.g. ore). You really want to have ports for that. The extra few percent efficiency of ship vs rail makes a huge difference because margin is so thin.