{"id":3142,"date":"2010-10-07T19:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2010-10-07T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:09:31","slug":"adb-funding-more-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/adb-funding-more-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"ADB funding more studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 June 2010 Asian Development Bank approved a further USD700 000 from its Technical Assistance Special Fund for: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A study on railway development for Afghanistan completed for the following routes: (i) From Hairatan at the border with Uzbekistan to Heart [<i>Herat<\/i>] in the west, via Mazar-e-Sharif; (ii) from Shirkhan Bendar at the border with Tajikistan, via Kunduz to Naibabad [<i>which is on the line under construction from Hayratan<\/i>] joining Mazar-e-Sharif to Heart; (iii) from Torkham at the border with Pakistan to Jalalabad; and (iv) Spainboldak at the border with Pakistan to Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/pid.adb.org\/pid\/TaView.htm?projNo=42533&#038;seqNo=03&#038;typeCd=2\">Railway Development Study (Supplementary) :  Afghani., Is Rep. of<\/a>, 2010-06-16<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Taking it literally, this seems to miss out the link needed from Chaman in Pakistan over the border to Spin Boldak in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 June 2010 Asian Development Bank approved a further USD700 000 from its Technical Assistance Special Fund for: A study on railway development for Afghanistan completed for the following routes: (i) From Hairatan at the border with Uzbekistan to Heart [Herat] in the west, via Mazar-e-Sharif; (ii) from Shirkhan Bendar at the border with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[12,81,134,165],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-adb","tag-herat","tag-pakistan","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","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=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}