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Afghanistan Believes In Connectivity: President Ghani

President Ashraf Ghani attended a ceremony on the completion of the Turkmenistan section of the key pipeline project, TAPI, on Friday. 

Senior officials from Afghanistan, India, Turkmenistan and Pakistan had attended the ceremony.

Ghani said Afghanistan will connect South Asia and Central Asia after more than a century of separation. 

“Afghanistan’s policy is the connectivity policy, not separation. South Asia will be connected with the Central Asia through Afghanistan after more than a century of separation,” Ghani said. “TAPI is not a project, but an economic corridor.”

He thanked Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and his team for completing the Turkmenistan section of the TAPI project.

“TAPI project means that Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India and other countries in the region have reached a joint economic cooperation which affects welfare of the region,” he said. 

“We laid not only the foundation of a project, but also a vision to eradicate poverty and bring prosperity together.”

He said the TAPI pipeline project has changed into an economic corridor as it contains a railway and power project.

The TAPI Project 

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project will transport gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India via a 1,814km pipeline. 

In Afghanistan, the TAPI pipeline will be constructed alongside the Kandahar–Herat Highway in western Afghanistan, and then via Quetta and Multan in Pakistan.

TAPI will however, transport gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India via a 1,814km pipeline.  

A ground-breaking ceremony is meanwhile expected to be held in Herat on Friday as construction on the Afghanistan section gets underway.

The final destination of the pipeline will be the Indian town of Fazilka, near its border with Pakistan.

Afghanistan is expected to earn $500 million USD in transit duties annually from the project.

The pipeline will be 1,814 kilometers long and will have the capacity of transferring 33 billion cubic meters of gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India through Herat, Farah, Helmand and Nimroz provinces of Afghanistan. 

Afghanistan Believes In Connectivity: President Ghani

President Ashraf Ghani says the TAPI project will help remove poverty, joblessness and extremism in the future.

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President Ashraf Ghani attended a ceremony on the completion of the Turkmenistan section of the key pipeline project, TAPI, on Friday. 

Senior officials from Afghanistan, India, Turkmenistan and Pakistan had attended the ceremony.

Ghani said Afghanistan will connect South Asia and Central Asia after more than a century of separation. 

“Afghanistan’s policy is the connectivity policy, not separation. South Asia will be connected with the Central Asia through Afghanistan after more than a century of separation,” Ghani said. “TAPI is not a project, but an economic corridor.”

He thanked Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and his team for completing the Turkmenistan section of the TAPI project.

“TAPI project means that Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India and other countries in the region have reached a joint economic cooperation which affects welfare of the region,” he said. 

“We laid not only the foundation of a project, but also a vision to eradicate poverty and bring prosperity together.”

He said the TAPI pipeline project has changed into an economic corridor as it contains a railway and power project.

The TAPI Project 

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project will transport gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India via a 1,814km pipeline. 

In Afghanistan, the TAPI pipeline will be constructed alongside the Kandahar–Herat Highway in western Afghanistan, and then via Quetta and Multan in Pakistan.

TAPI will however, transport gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India via a 1,814km pipeline.  

A ground-breaking ceremony is meanwhile expected to be held in Herat on Friday as construction on the Afghanistan section gets underway.

The final destination of the pipeline will be the Indian town of Fazilka, near its border with Pakistan.

Afghanistan is expected to earn $500 million USD in transit duties annually from the project.

The pipeline will be 1,814 kilometers long and will have the capacity of transferring 33 billion cubic meters of gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India through Herat, Farah, Helmand and Nimroz provinces of Afghanistan. 

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