{"id":72496,"date":"2020-12-06T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=72496"},"modified":"2020-12-04T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:28:49","slug":"pak-afghan-train-track-on-cards-sheikh-rasheed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-afghan-train-track-on-cards-sheikh-rasheed.html","title":{"rendered":"Pak-Afghan train track on cards: Sheikh Rasheed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quetta: Minister Pakistan Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Thursday announced his department\u2019s plans to connect Pakistan and Afghanistan by laying a rail track from Chaman to Spin Boldak (the first Afghan town near the Pak-Afghan border), according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-afghan-trade-industrial-expo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pak-Afghan industrial expo in the works<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister stated that Pakistan would be installing an 11-kilometre-long railway track from Chaman to Spin Boldak in the project\u2019s initial phase. A survey has been completed for this train track and a PC-1 for the project is under progress. Minister Rasheed also hinted at the possibility of extending the track from Spin Boldak to Kandahar, on the condition that the Afghan government was willing to give its approval to the proposal. He opined that the train project would help facilitate<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-afghan-trade-begins-via-gwadar-port.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> trade<\/a> between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-china-rebuild-afghanistan-cpec-president-alvi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018Pak, China will rebuild Afghanistan via CPEC\u2019: President Alvi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the minister revealed that the Quetta-Chaman passenger train was running successfully and that the Railways department was looking to hand over its operations to the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quetta: Minister Pakistan Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Thursday announced his department\u2019s plans to connect Pakistan and Afghanistan by laying a rail track from Chaman to Spin Boldak (the first Afghan town near the Pak-Afghan border), according to news sources. Read: Pak-Afghan industrial expo in the works The minister stated that Pakistan would be installing an 11-kilometre-long railway track from Chaman to Spin Boldak in the project\u2019s initial phase. A survey has been completed for this train track and a PC-1 for the project is under progress. Minister Rasheed also hinted at the possibility of extending the track from Spin Boldak to Kandahar, on the condition that the Afghan government was willing to give its approval to the proposal. He opined that the train project would help facilitate trade between the two countries. Read: \u2018Pak, China will rebuild Afghanistan via CPEC\u2019: President Alvi Additionally, the minister revealed that the Quetta-Chaman passenger train was running successfully and that the Railways department was looking to hand over its operations to the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":65203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15153],"tags":[43733],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-trade","9":"tag-pak-afghan-train-track-on-cards-sheikh-rasheed","10":"cat-15016-id","11":"cat-15153-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pak-Afghan train track on cards: Sheikh Rasheed - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The minister stated that Pakistan would be installing an 11-kilometre-long railway track from Chaman to Spin Boldak in the project\u2019s initial phase.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-afghan-train-track-on-cards-sheikh-rasheed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pak-Afghan train track on cards: Sheikh Rasheed - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The minister stated that Pakistan would be installing an 11-kilometre-long railway track from Chaman to Spin Boldak in the project\u2019s initial phase.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-afghan-train-track-on-cards-sheikh-rasheed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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