{"id":1548,"date":"2009-04-05T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2009-04-05T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:00:43","slug":"tajikistan-building-railway-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/tajikistan-building-railway-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tajikistan building railway to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/departments\/news\/articles\/eav032009a.shtml\">20 March 2009 article<\/a> from the Open Society Institute&#8217;s EurasiaNet website.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Tajikistan: rail link to Afghanistan under construction<\/h3>\n<p>Tajikistan has begun construction on a railway line to connect the capital Dushanbe with the southern city of <strong>Khorgan-Tepe<\/strong> near the Afghan border. Once completed, the link could be used by US and NATO forces transporting goods to Afghanistan through the newly opened Northern Distribution Network.<\/p>\n<p>President Imomali Rahmon officially launched the Vakhdat-Yavan section of the line, the Interfax news agency reported March 20. Construction on the $130 million project is drawing on funds from the Tajik state rail company, but the government hopes to attract foreign investors, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>In January Tajikistan received $14.79 million grant to complete a highway running from Khorgan-Teppe to Nizhny Pyanzh at the Afghan border. The nearly 24-kilometer stretch of road will link into a $37-million, US-funded bridge across the Pyanzh River to Shir Khan Bandar in Afghanistan. The bridge was completed in 2007. In August 2008, a border post at Nizhny Pyanzh, built at a cost of $6.5-million by the US Army Corps of Engineers, was given to the Tajik Customs Service.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: Copyright 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/departments\/news\/articles\/eav032009a.shtml\">Open Society Institute<\/a>. Reprinted with the permission of the Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019 USA, www.EurasiaNet.org<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20 March 2009 article from the Open Society Institute&#8217;s EurasiaNet website. Tajikistan: rail link to Afghanistan under construction Tajikistan has begun construction on a railway line to connect the capital Dushanbe with the southern city of Khorgan-Tepe near the Afghan border. Once completed, the link could be used by US and NATO forces transporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}