INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Asphalting of a section of the Kabul-Kandahar highway began on Saturday in the presence of the Prime Minister&s Deputy for Economic Affairs
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.Arghandi-Bazaar Durrani road is 27 kilometers long, 11 meters wide, and has two major bridges and 60 culverts
The project will cost about one billion Afghanis, which is being financed by the Islamic Emirate.&Our request is that all the contracting
companies increase their efforts to speed up their work so that the project will be completed soon and the problems of passengers on this
route will be solved,& Mullah Baradar said at the ceremony to launch the project.The project is scheduled to be completed within one
year.Members of the private sector called the reconstruction of the Kabul-Kandahar highway important for the growth of the country&s economy
and transit and emphasized that the project will be executed in accordance with the contract.&There has been a significant increase in the
transportation of passengers, the export of fresh and dried fruit, transit and trade, and all criteria will be considered in the
implementation of this project,& Mohammad Yunus Mohmand, deputy of the Chamber of Commerce and Investment, said.Najibullah Jalalzai, head of
the contracting company said: &The quality of the road will be high
The thickness of bitumen is 21 cm
We will try to complete the project in seven months.&Officials of the Ministry of Public Works also asked the contracting company to
consider the standards in the construction of the road.The post Reconstruction of 27 kms of Kabul-Kandahar highway gets underway first
