Peshawar-Jalalabad railway route
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Railways (PR) has completed a feasibility report of the Chaman-Qandahar railway track and it has now requested the World Bank to assist in the feasibility of the Peshawar-Jalalabad route.
Director Planning Ministry of Railways Aftab Akbar told APP that the PR’s top priority is rehabilitation, upgradation of infrastructure and lying of new tracks with an aim to be a hub of economic activities for regional countries.
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Source: The News International, 2011-03-28
In January 2010 a Chaman – Kandahar study was reported as having been submitted to the Afghan government.