{"id":2561,"date":"2010-05-05T11:53:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T11:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2010-05-05T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T11:53:27","slug":"bloomberg-on-afghan-railway-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/bloomberg-on-afghan-railway-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg on Afghan railway projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Afghan Railway to Draw Taliban Fire as It Boosts Economy, NATO<\/h3>\n<p>By Eltaf Najafizada and James Rupert<\/p>\n<p>May 5 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Workers are laying track across north Afghanistan\u2019s rolling grassland for the country\u2019s first rail line, a project that will boost the economy, supply NATO troops and become a target for Taliban bombs.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cRailroads can reduce our isolation,\u201d said Hamidullah Farooqi, a Kabul University economics professor and former transport minister, in a phone interview. \u201cThis is just the first line for a network that we hope can turn our country into a new trade route. That is what we need to create stability.\u201d<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&#038;sid=a8PdQYiwv0Mk\">More&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Railway to Draw Taliban Fire as It Boosts Economy, NATO By Eltaf Najafizada and James Rupert May 5 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Workers are laying track across north Afghanistan\u2019s rolling grassland for the country\u2019s first rail line, a project that will boost the economy, supply NATO troops and become a target for Taliban bombs. &#8230; \u201cRailroads [&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":[12,25,79,81,85,165],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-adb","tag-bloomberg","tag-hayratan","tag-herat","tag-iran","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","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=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}