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Article: Afghanistan : Afghanistan s First Railroad Aims to Undermine Taliban Funding.
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- October 28, 2009
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Byline: rakshali03
Afghanistan is building its first rail link with the help of the Asian Development Bank in a bid to improve trade and aid and undermine highway bandits helping to fund insurgents, including the Taliban.
The bank will name the design and operation contractors next week for the $170 million railway from Uzbekistan s border to Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan s second-largest city and a hub for aid and imports, said Juan Miranda, ADB director-general for Central and West Asia. Work on the 75-kilometer (47-mile) line will start this year and may finish in 2010, he said.
Afghanistan has only 25 kilometers of train track and crime gangs ...