Repair work begins for railway linking Afghanistan's Herat to Iran
STORY: Repair work begins for railway linking Afghanistan's Herat to Iran
DATELINE: Sept. 24, 2022
LENGTH: 0:01:14
LOCATION: Kabul
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1 various of the railway project
2 SOUNDBITE (Dari): SAYED SADEQ GILANI, Professor, Herat University
STORYLINE:
Afghan authorities have begun the work to repair the railway linking the western Herat province to Khawaf of the neighboring country Iran.
Bakht-ur-Rahman Sharafat, head of Afghanistan Railways, said that the repairing work began on Wednesday at the Rozanak station on the Herat-Khawaf railway.
Sharafat added that the project would be completed at a cost of some 53 million afghani (about 600,000 U.S. dollars) within two and half months.
A total of 149 km in length on the Afghan side out of the 225 km railway has been damaged over the past more than one year, according to the official.
SOUNDBITE (Dari): SAYED SADEQ GILANI, Professor, Herat University
"Repairing of the railway would bolster trade and economic activities not only between
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