{"id":4115,"date":"2011-07-03T19:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2011-07-03T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:00:17","slug":"mazar-i-sharif-line-opens-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/mazar-i-sharif-line-opens-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazar-i-Sharif line opens this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-to-mazar-i-sharif\/\">railway from Hayratan to Mazar-i-Sharif<\/a> will open shortly, reports Central Asia Online.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although ready to operate, the railway has been idle since February because Afghanistan failed to complete some legal formalities and because some security concerns existed.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n\u201cWe helped build the latter line, and it\u2019s up to Afghanistan now to make it operational. Professional railway personnel need to be trained, and locomotives and cars purchased,\u201d [UTY spokesman Rasul Khalikov] said. <\/p>\n<p>The Afghan side plans to start running its own trains by year\u2019s end, he added.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/centralasiaonline.com\/cocoon\/caii\/xhtml\/en_GB\/features\/caii\/features\/business\/2011\/06\/29\/feature-01\">Uzbek-Afghan railway to start running in July<\/a>, Maksim Yeniseyev, CentralAsiaOnline.com, 2011-06-29<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new railway from Hayratan to Mazar-i-Sharif will open shortly, reports Central Asia Online. Although ready to operate, the railway has been idle since February because Afghanistan failed to complete some legal formalities and because some security concerns existed. [&#8230;] \u201cWe helped build the latter line, and it\u2019s up to Afghanistan now to make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-photographs","tag-mazar-i-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}