{"id":2892,"date":"2010-07-08T18:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2010-07-08T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:55:40","slug":"memorandum-for-kandahar-and-jalalabad-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/memorandum-for-kandahar-and-jalalabad-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorandum for Kandahar and Jalalabad railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone got a copy of the text of the joint communique? <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to establish rail links<\/h3>\n<p>By Sajid Chaudhry<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for establishing the <strong>Torkham-Jalalabad<\/strong> and <strong>Chaman-Spinboldak-Kandhar<\/strong> rail links.<\/p>\n<p>The MoU, covering feasibility studies for both the projects, was signed by Federal Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and Afghan Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>However, both countries failed to break the deadlock over the transit facility for Indian goods that would be sent to Afghanistan via Pakistan under the proposed Afghan -Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA).<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp?page=2010%5C07%5C08%5Cstory_8-7-2010_pg7_7\n\">More&#8230;<\/a>]<br \/>\n<cite>Source: Daily Times, 2010-07-08<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Jalalabad plan presumably means rehabilitating the Khyber Pass line and then extending it over the border into Afghanistan for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone got a copy of the text of the joint communique? Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to establish rail links By Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for establishing the Torkham-Jalalabad and Chaman-Spinboldak-Kandhar rail links. The MoU, covering feasibility studies for both the projects, was signed by Federal [&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":[89,92,134,161,183],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-jalalabad","tag-kandahar","tag-pakistan","tag-spin-boldak","tag-torkham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","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=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}