{"id":2490,"date":"2010-04-09T07:48:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2010-04-09T07:48:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:48:41","slug":"tajik-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/tajik-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Tajik rail link feasibility study"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Tajik leader, Asian bank official discuss energy projects, Afghanistan<\/h3>\n<p>[Director-General of Asian Develop Bank&#8217;s Central &#038; West Asia Department] Juan Miranda said the ADB had been very successful in drawing up a feasibility study of a project to build several other power plants in Tajikistan, power transmission lines from Tajikistan to Afghanistan and a <strong>railway line<\/strong> between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, which will link with railways in Turkmenistan and Iran. [&#8230;] It was also said that the construction of a regional railway had started in the part of Hayratan-Mazar-e Sharif and a feasibility study of the Tajikistan-Herat railway will be ready by this summer. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: Excerpt from report by state-owned Tajik Television First Channel on 2010-03-15, quoted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennenergy.com\/index\/articles\/newsdisplay\/142546188.html\">PennEnergy<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Tajik leader, Afghan minister mull electricity exports<\/h3>\n<p>Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Afghan Minister of Economy Abdol Hadi Arghandiwal discussed trade and economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, in Dushanbe today. <\/p>\n<p>At a meeting with journalists following the talks with the Tajik president, the Afghan minister of economy said that &#8220;during the conversation with the president, export of Tajik electricity to Afghanistan, the <strong>construction of a railway<\/strong> and the construction of a hydroelectric power station on the River Panj were discussed&#8221;.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nAccording to him, at present a railway line from Iran is being constructed in Afghanistan, and it will stretch up to the Tajik Panj, where it will connect with a railway branch of Tajikistan.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: Avesta website, Dushanbe, in Russian 2010-03-17, quoted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hydroworld.com\/index\/display\/news_display.142597572.html\">Hydroworld<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tajik leader, Asian bank official discuss energy projects, Afghanistan [Director-General of Asian Develop Bank&#8217;s Central &#038; West Asia Department] Juan Miranda said the ADB had been very successful in drawing up a feasibility study of a project to build several other power plants in Tajikistan, power transmission lines from Tajikistan to Afghanistan and a railway [&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":[165],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","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=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}