Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): tajikistan , turkmenistan and uzbekistan border afghanistan to the north , iran to the west , pakistan to the south and the people 's republic of china to the east.
Output (English): bordering afghanistan towards the northern side are the countries of tajikstan , turkmenistan and uzbekistan , iran borders it on the west while the southern and easter borders of afghanistan have pakistan and the people 's republic of china as neighboring countries respectively.