A company at the Shorandam Industrial Estate in Kandahar says it has a sleeper factory, using Italian technology to produce concrete sleepers to Russian standards.

Mahmoud Star Steel Mills is the first company in Afghanistan to set up mobile factory to manufacture Railway Sleepers for the reconstrution of the Afghanistan Railway Line project across the whole Afghan Region […] MSSM Railway Concrete Sleepers Plant for the production of concrete sleepers uses modern technologies from Italy to produce Quality Certified Concrete Sleepers for the future development of Afghan Railway Project.

Can anyone confirm whether this is actual rather than aspirational? Kandahar is a long way from the Mazar-i-Sharif line.