{"id":6009,"date":"2014-11-01T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2014-11-01T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T23:52:00","slug":"turkmenistan-afghanistan-tajikistan-line-needs-money-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/turkmenistan-afghanistan-tajikistan-line-needs-money-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan &#8211; Afghanistan &#8211; Tajikistan line needs money and security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afghanistantimes.af\/news_details.php?id=9528\">Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan Railway project to be completed soon if challenges addressed<\/a>&#8220;, reports the <i>Afghanistan Times<\/i> on 1 November 2014, citing the head of the Afghanistan Railway Authority speaking in an <a href=\"http:\/\/pa.azadiradio.org\/content\/article\/26669556.html\">interview with Radio Azadi<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>However those &#8220;challenges&#8221; are the perhaps non-trivial matters of security and funding, and two years sounds like it would be pretty good going for building 495 km of new railway. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/afra.gov.af\/en\/page\/10773\">Yama Shams<\/a>, General Director &#038; CEO of the Afghanistan Railway Authority, <a href=\"http:\/\/pa.azadiradio.org\/content\/article\/26669556.html\">told Radio Azadi<\/a> that &#8220;Engineers and workers of the project are faced with serious problems in areas from Mazar-i-Sharif city to Andkhoy. This area is insecure. They cannot work after 4pm. Our staffers have not been attacked yet but they are under security threat.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"\/afghanistan\/ministry-of-public-works-commissions-railway-study\/\">Studies<\/a> have been completed for the 220 km section of line from Mazar-i-Sharif to Andkhoy (where it would meet the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/presidents-launch-construction-of-turkmenistan-afghanistan-tajikistan-railway\/\">line from Turkmenistan<\/a>). Studies for the next 275 km (presumably the link to Tajikistan) would be completed in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>The project could be completed in the next two years if the workers were provided with security and financial support.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/afghanistan-turkmenistan-and-tajikistan-sign-railway-construction-mou\/\">total project<\/a> covers a 635 km route from Aqina near the border with Turkmenistan to Andkhoy, Sheberghan, Mazar-i-Sharif, Khulm, Kunduz and Shirkhan Bandar, ending at Kalkhor Abad (Kolkhozabad) in Tajikistan. This suggests that <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/tajik-rail-link-rethought\/\">going via Shirkhan Bandar<\/a> rather than a <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/dispute-over-revised-turkmenistan-tajikistan-railway-plan\/\">shorter route to the Tajik border<\/a> is back on the agenda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=216968086968074377513.000492eaa4f7436e3027d&amp;source=embed&amp;ll=37.291535,65.418091&amp;spn=1.529536,2.334595&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>View <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=216968086968074377513.000492eaa4f7436e3027d&amp;source=embed&amp;ll=37.291535,65.418091&amp;spn=1.529536,2.334595\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Turkmenistan &#8211; Andkhoy railway plan<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan Railway project to be completed soon if challenges addressed&#8220;, reports the Afghanistan Times on 1 November 2014, citing the head of the Afghanistan Railway Authority speaking in an interview with Radio Azadi. However those &#8220;challenges&#8221; are the perhaps non-trivial matters of security and funding, and two years sounds like it would be pretty good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[212,277,16,241,114,240,232,165,191],"class_list":["post-6009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-afghanistan-times","tag-afra","tag-andkhoy","tag-aqina","tag-mazar-i-sharif","tag-sheberghan","tag-shirkhan-bandar","tag-tajikistan","tag-turkmenistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009","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=6009"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}