{"id":353,"date":"2008-08-12T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ajg41.plus.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2008-08-12T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:00:03","slug":"afghan-president-mentions-through-rail-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/afghan-president-mentions-through-rail-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan president mentions through rail route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation&#8217;s Heads of State Summit in Colombo last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/2008\/08\/04\/fea04.asp\">Afghan President Hamid Karzai said<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of the contract with a Chinese consortium for the exploration of the Aynak copper deposit, a railway line will be constructed which will connect Central Asia to South Asia, thereby expediting the transport of people and goods within the region and beyond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The suggestions of passenger transport, and a through north-south link, are interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The project was announced last November. A consortim of China Metallurgical Group Corporation and Jiangxi Copper Co would <q><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/189\/rail-plan-for-afghan-copper-mine\/\">build a railway line<\/a> from the town of Hairatan on the Amu Darya bordering Uzbekistan, through Logar and to Torkham on the Pakistan border to export the minerals<\/q>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation&#8217;s Heads of State Summit in Colombo last week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said As part of the contract with a Chinese consortium for the exploration of the Aynak copper deposit, a railway line will be constructed which will connect Central Asia to South Asia, thereby expediting [&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],"tags":[45,79,134,200],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-copper-mine","tag-hayratan","tag-pakistan","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}