A survey for a railway from Peshawar in Pakistan to Jalalabad in Afghanistan is to be launched soon, reports The News International1 citing an Afghan Ministry of Public Works press release (which I can’t seem to find) of Wednesday 4 May 2016. Rs60 million has been allocated and a private firm has been engaged to conduct the eight-month survey for the line, which the head of the (unspecified) company in Afghanistan, Wahidullah Oryakhel said would be 150 km long, with 75 km in Nangarhar province. Pakistan is providing financial assistance for the project.
Busines Recorder says the consultancy is Umar Munshi Associates of Karachi.2
The reports do not say whether this proposal would involve reviving the moribund and flood damaged Khyber Pass Railway, or building a new line through the Shilman Valley.
- Survey of Jalalabad-Peshawar railway track to start soon, bureau report, The News International, Pakistan, 5 May 2016. ↩
- Railways still living up to its bad Reputation: Rs 24 billion fiscal deficit target to be missed, Business Recorder, 13 May 2016 ↩