10.05.08

Railway from Torkham to Amo Darya connects Middle Asia to Indian Ocean

Dip Engineer M Ibrahim Adel Minister of Mine of Afghanistan met with Abdul Rahim Ashur Minister of Transport and communication of Tajikestan.
Dr Jalil Shams Minister of Economy, Ministry of Mine of Afghanistan deputies and deputies from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, education and agriculture of Tajikestan also participated in the meeting.

The Minister of Mines explained the Aynak copper project to Tajikistan delegation," a part of the Aynak project would be to extend the railway from Amo Darya to Torkham, the other parts of the railway would be in Pakistan and china that connects middle Asia to Indian Ocean in Karachi in Pakistan and Bandar Abbas in Iran", Said Minister of Mines of Afghanistan.

About TAPI gas pipe line Minister of Mines said: "Turkmenistan will transit 1TrillionM3 gas to TAPI members in 30 years.
About the Kode- Barq fertilizer of Mazare sharif the Minister of Mines said: " electricity generation of this fabricate is decreased from 48MW to 13-14 MW ". He asked the Tajikistan delegations to cooperate Afghanistan by their experts to reconstruct the Kode Barq fertilizer. He also invited the Tajikistan mining industries to join the bidding process of reconstruction of Kode-Barq Fertilizer. 

 "We believe that Aynak Copper Project is the start for Afghanistan to use the natural resources ", said Minister of Transport and communication of Tajikistan. He also hoped to increase the facilitated transportation between Afghanistan and Tajikistan to obtain benefits from each others resources. 

Minister Ashur also noted that the 1783 Km distance from Kabul- Tashghar is shortest way to connect middle Asia to china and the government of Tajikistan is ready to make more facilities for this issue.  

He also said: "whenever the Afghanistan government wants to, we are ready to negotiate about Amo Darya River ".