This chapter considers the relationship of mobile Afghan traders to Afghanistan. It argues that commercial nodes within Afghanistan act as vital hubs that are rich in the types of capital and commercial personnel critical for long-distance Afghan networks of credit and trade. A consideration of the entangled trajectories of commercial actors and migrants also challenges the depiction of Afghanistan as a one-dimensional departure point for migrants. The country instead plays a central role in inter-Asian circulations of goods, capital and people and occupies a critical role in interconnected and multidirectional geographical trajectories of merchants and migrants. The chapter documents the importance of practices of entrustment and the giving of favours to mobile Afghan to the country significance to long-distance trading networks. Afghanistan’s trading networks and the nodes important to them inform development across Eurasia in settings where we might least expect them to do so. In this sense, tracing Afghan trading networks reveal connections between different parts of Eurasia– connections in which Afghans are themselves active in constructing.