{"id":4085,"date":"2011-06-21T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2011-06-21T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:00:22","slug":"hajigak-ore-mine-rail-link-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/hajigak-ore-mine-rail-link-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Hajigak ore mine rail link plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Minister for Mines, Wahidullah Shahrani, speaks to India&#8217;s <cite>Business Standard<\/cite> about tendering of the Hajigak iron ore mine project, which includes <q>an integrated steel plant that will consume high-grade coking coal from nearby deposits; a road or rail evacuation route<\/q>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;]<br \/>\nChina, which was awarded the Aynak copper mines in Loghar province, Afghanistan\u2019s first big sale of mining rights in the post-Taliban era, has undertaken to build a railway line from the northern provinces, to Bamiyan (where Hajigak is located), to Kabul, and then to Torkham on the Pakistan border at the Khyber Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Shahrani believes that a viable alternative that could form the Hajigak evacuation infrastructure would be a railway line running westwards to Iran, along the Zaranj-Delaram highway that India had built in the mid-2000s, to the Iranian port of Chabahar.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india\/news\/new-afghanistan-mining-projects-create-opportunity-for-india\/438103\/\">New Afghanistan mining projects create opportunity for India<\/a>, Ajai Shukla, Business Standard, 2011-06-07<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Minister for Mines, Wahidullah Shahrani, speaks to India&#8217;s Business Standard about tendering of the Hajigak iron ore mine project, which includes an integrated steel plant that will consume high-grade coking coal from nearby deposits; a road or rail evacuation route. [&#8230;] China, which was awarded the Aynak copper mines in Loghar province, Afghanistan\u2019s first [&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":[33,76,83,85,86],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-business-standard","tag-hajigak","tag-india","tag-iran","tag-iron-ore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","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=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}