{"id":3216,"date":"2010-10-24T19:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2010-10-24T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T19:00:47","slug":"minister-says-turkmenistan-link-is-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/minister-says-turkmenistan-link-is-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister says Turkmenistan link is next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megha Bahree of Forbes interviews Afghanistan&#8217;s Minister of Mines, Wahidullah Shahrani, about mining projects. The article includes this about the next phase of the railway plans:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Shahrani: Right now we have up the railway line from Uzbekistan to Mazar-i-Sharif, which is a big commercial center. This 75 km long railway line cost $175 million and was funded by the ADB. <strong>Next phase will be from Afghanistan to the Turkmenistan border<\/strong>. This is 257kms and will take three years and we expect the tenders out by early next year. Apart from this, MCC is also constructing a 921km long railway line that will link Kabul with Turkmenistan, Pakistan, central highland to Mazar-i-sharif.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/meghabahree\/2010\/10\/21\/in-the-shadow-of-the-taliban-afghanistans-mining-sector-is-open-for-business\/?boxes=financechannelforbes\">In The Shadow Of The Taliban, Afghanistan\u2019s Mining Sector Is Open For Business<\/a>, Megha Bahree, Forbes, 2010-10-21 <\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megha Bahree of Forbes interviews Afghanistan&#8217;s Minister of Mines, Wahidullah Shahrani, about mining projects. The article includes this about the next phase of the railway plans: Shahrani: Right now we have up the railway line from Uzbekistan to Mazar-i-Sharif, which is a big commercial center. This 75 km long railway line cost $175 million and [&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":[45,191],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-copper-mine","tag-turkmenistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","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=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}