{"id":181,"date":"2007-10-25T22:35:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T22:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ajg41.plus.com\/2007\/10\/25\/afghan-bogies-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T22:35:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T22:35:06","slug":"afghan-bogies-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/afghan-bogies-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan bogies cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IANS news story of October 24 <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/071024\/43\/6mc7l.html\">Pakistan forfeits $500,000 from Chinese firm<\/a> says<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> A Chinese firm that was prevented by Beijing from supplying 300 railway bogies <i>[meaning bogie passenger coaches]<\/i> that Pakistan had contracted for has lost the Rs.30 million (about $50,000) guarantee money it had paid toward the Rs.1.6 billion contract after Islamabad forfeited the deposit.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan railway ministry officials were &#8216;shocked&#8217; to learn that the firm that had been awarded the contract &#8216;was forcibly stopped by the Chinese government from delivering the consignment&#8217;, The News said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The contract for the bogies, meant for <strong>developing rail links with Afghanistan<\/strong>, has now gone to an Iranian firm.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/071024\/43\/6mc7l.html\">[more]<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IANS news story of October 24 Pakistan forfeits $500,000 from Chinese firm says A Chinese firm that was prevented by Beijing from supplying 300 railway bogies [meaning bogie passenger coaches] that Pakistan had contracted for has lost the Rs.30 million (about $50,000) guarantee money it had paid toward the Rs.1.6 billion contract after Islamabad [&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":[40,85,134],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-china","tag-iran","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}