Tajik leader, Asian bank official discuss energy projects, Afghanistan

[Director-General of Asian Develop Bank’s Central & West Asia Department] Juan Miranda said the ADB had been very successful in drawing up a feasibility study of a project to build several other power plants in Tajikistan, power transmission lines from Tajikistan to Afghanistan and a railway line between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, which will link with railways in Turkmenistan and Iran. […] It was also said that the construction of a regional railway had started in the part of Hayratan-Mazar-e Sharif and a feasibility study of the Tajikistan-Herat railway will be ready by this summer. …

Source: Excerpt from report by state-owned Tajik Television First Channel on 2010-03-15, quoted at PennEnergy

Tajik leader, Afghan minister mull electricity exports

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Afghan Minister of Economy Abdol Hadi Arghandiwal discussed trade and economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, in Dushanbe today.

At a meeting with journalists following the talks with the Tajik president, the Afghan minister of economy said that “during the conversation with the president, export of Tajik electricity to Afghanistan, the construction of a railway and the construction of a hydroelectric power station on the River Panj were discussed”.
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According to him, at present a railway line from Iran is being constructed in Afghanistan, and it will stretch up to the Tajik Panj, where it will connect with a railway branch of Tajikistan.

Source: Avesta website, Dushanbe, in Russian 2010-03-17, quoted at Hydroworld