{"id":2329,"date":"2010-03-21T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2010-03-21T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:00:04","slug":"mazar-i-sharif-line-to-be-extended-to-dara-i-sauf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/mazar-i-sharif-line-to-be-extended-to-dara-i-sauf\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazar-i-Sharif line to be extended to Dara-i-Sauf"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Work on railway line to begin soon: Officials from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan have agreed to launch construction work on a 75-kilometre railway line, linking Mazar-i-Sharif with the Hairatan dry port.<\/p>\n<p>An agreement to the effect was reached at talks between the two sides on January 16. <!-- \nThe Uzbek delegation was led by Railways Director Rahmatove while the Afghan team was headed by acting Deputy Minister of Public Works Dr. Ahmad Shah Waheed.\nGovernor's spokesman Munir Farhad told Pajhwok Afghan News the 75-km railway track would cost $129 million, to be provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). \n--><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe construction of <strong>another railway line<\/strong> &#8212; linking the airport in Mazar-i-Sharif to <strong>Dara-i-Sauf<\/strong> district of neighbouring Samangan province &#8212; would be launched in the second phase, he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasianoutlook.com\/issues\/2010\/february\/a_white_elephant_power_plant_in_kabul.html\">more<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasianoutlook.com\/issues\/2010\/february\/a_white_elephant_power_plant_in_kabul.html\">South Asian Outlook quoting Pajhwok Afghan News<\/a>, 2010-02-??<\/cite>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Work on railway line to begin soon: Officials from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan have agreed to launch construction work on a 75-kilometre railway line, linking Mazar-i-Sharif with the Hairatan dry port. An agreement to the effect was reached at talks between the two sides on January 16. &#8230; The construction of another railway line &#8212; [&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],"tags":[51,114,133],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-dara-i-suf","tag-mazar-i-sharif","tag-pajhwok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","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=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}