Bakht Rahman Sharafat, acting head of the Afghanistan Railway Authority, in an annual activities report said there has been a 25 percent increase in the transit of goods via railway in the
Bakht Rahman Sharafat, acting head of the Afghanistan Railway Authority, in an annual activities report said there has been a 25 percent increase in the transit of goods via railway in the
Afghanistan, Pakistan Eye New Railway Link Project
Nisar Ahmed Faizi Ghoryani, the Afghan Minister for Industry and Commerce, on Wednesday met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad and the two discussed issues around bilateral relations including the expansion of a railway line project between the Afghan cities of Mazar-e-Sharif – Kabul and Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
“The Prime Minister mentioned the Trans-Afghan railway line project, “Mazar-e-Sharif – Kabul – Peshawar,” and highlighted Pakistan’s support to Uzbekistan’s efforts to secure financing for the project. In this regard, he mentioned that he had signed a Joint Appeal Letter addressed to the Heads of various International Financial Institutions (IFIs) by Heads of State/Government of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan,” the office of Pakistan’s Prime Minister said in a statement on Wednesday.