{"id":6976,"date":"2017-09-25T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2017-09-25T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:33:41","slug":"khyber-pass-railway-revival-contemplated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/khyber-pass-railway-revival-contemplated\/","title":{"rendered":"Khyber Pass railway revival contemplated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Pakistan is considering plans rebuild the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/khyber-pass-railway\/\">Khyber Pass railway<\/a>, reports the Express Tribune. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pakistan Railways\u2019 chairperson Perveen Agha along with other senior officials visited the track on Thursday. \u201cThe purpose of the visit is to start work on reviving and restoring the Peshawar-Torkham railway track,\u201d said an official of the political administration. The political administration has already given shopkeepers and other encroachers along the railway track to vacate Pakistan Railway\u2019s property within a week so that restoration work can begin.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/1506633\/k-p-govt-mulling-plans-restore-historic-railway-track-torkham\/\">Govt mulling plans to restore historic railway track at Torkham<\/a>, Express Tribune, 15 September 2017<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Pakistan is considering plans rebuild the Khyber Pass railway, reports the Express Tribune. Pakistan Railways\u2019 chairperson Perveen Agha along with other senior officials visited the track on Thursday. \u201cThe purpose of the visit is to start work on reviving and restoring the Peshawar-Torkham railway track,\u201d said an official of the political administration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[316,97,134],"class_list":["post-6976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-express-tribune","tag-khyber-pass","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976","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=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6979,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}