BY ELTAF NAJAFIZADA AND DEBJIT CHAKRABORTYBloomberg News (TNS)KABUL – It sounds good for Afghanistan on paper: Build a gas pipeline in about four years and start becoming financially self-sufficient after more than a decade of war.In reality, the $10 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline involves transporting gas the distance from New York to Miami through a Taliban insurgency and the heavily guarded border of two nuclear-armed neighbors.That’s not stopping Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, whose government plans to host a meeting in Kabul in May to revive the project first proposed in 1994. He needs cash to wean the nation off international aid as the U.S. withdraws most of its troops by January 2017.“It’s an economic bridge to connect these countries,” Daud Shah Saba, Afghanistan’s mines and petroleum minister, said in a March 3 interview at his Kabul office. The pipeline “will be a tool to medicate lots of political problems, and at the same time it provides economic help for all of the countries.”In May, the four countries will seek to agree on a company to lead a consortium, something they’ve failed to do since the Asian Development Bank was brought in to facilitate the project after the U.S. invasion in 2001.