{"id":1718,"date":"2009-06-23T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2009-06-23T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:11:07","slug":"hayratan-mazar-i-sharif-railway-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/hayratan-mazar-i-sharif-railway-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayratan &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif railway plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Text of report by privately-owned Afghan Arzu TV on 18 June, reported by BBC Monitoring South Asia, 2009-06-19.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Rail Road Project to Link North Afghanistan to Uzbekistan<\/h3>\n<p>[Presenter] After a short time, new rail road will be built from Uzbekistan to Hayratan border town and from Hayratan to Mazar-e Sharif city, says Minister of Commerce and Industries Wahidullah Shahrani in a meeting with Uzbek railway minister in Hayratan border town. Mr Shahrani said rail road&#8217;s designing and technical procedure had been started and will be completed in nine months. He added Asian Development Bank will donate 100m dollars for building the rail road and a logistic station in Mazar-e Sharif city and Uzbekistan will cooperate in its technical procedure.<\/p>\n<p>[Correspondent] Minister of Commerce and Industries Wahidullah Shahrani visited Hayratan border town of Balkh Province to meet Uzbek minister of railway and speak about building a rail road between Uzbekistan and Mazar-e Sharif city. The minister said building a railway from Hayratan border town to Mazar-e Sharif city costs 80-120m dollars, its technical and designing procedure costing 1.2m dollars will be completed after nine months. The project is funded by Asian Development Bank.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrywatch.com\/pages\/iw\/Story.nsp?story_id=131925523&#038;ID=iw&#038;scategory=Transportation%3ARail&#038;P=&#038;F=&#038;R=&#038;VNC=Business\">More<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text of report by privately-owned Afghan Arzu TV on 18 June, reported by BBC Monitoring South Asia, 2009-06-19. Rail Road Project to Link North Afghanistan to Uzbekistan [Presenter] After a short time, new rail road will be built from Uzbekistan to Hayratan border town and from Hayratan to Mazar-e Sharif city, says Minister of Commerce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,1],"tags":[12,18,79,114,200],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","category-uncategorized","tag-adb","tag-arzu-tv","tag-hayratan","tag-mazar-i-sharif","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","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=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}