Turkmenistan officers due in Afghanistan as Taliban again TAPI gasoline pipeline By Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) – Officers from Turkmenistan will go to Kabul this week to debate persevering with work on the TAPI pipeline linking the energy-rich Central Asian nation via Afghanistan to Pakistan and India, the Taliban authorities mentioned on Wednesday.

The pipeline is predicted to hold 33 billion cubic meters (bcm) of every year alongside a route stretching 1,800 km (1,125 miles) from Galkynysh, the world’s second-biggest gasoline discipline, to the Indian metropolis of Fazilka close to the Pakistan border.

“We have now been working arduous for a while and we’re able to take delight in beginning work on the TAPI mission,” Mohammad Issa Akhund, the appearing minister of mines and petroleum within the new Taliban authorities, mentioned in an announcement.

The Afghan stretch of the pipeline will run from the northwestern border with Turkmenistan, south via the western metropolis of Herat to Kandahar close to the border with Pakistan.

Akhund met the ambassador of Turkmenistan forward of a two-day go to by a delegation from the nation that may begin from Saturday, the assertion mentioned.

The mission was launched in Afghanistan in 2018, when the Taliban was combating the Western-backed authorities in Kabul, however it pledged its cooperation for a mission it hailed as a key future ingredient of the financial infrastructure.

Afghanistan, which suffers continual power shortages, is predicted to take 5% of the gasoline itself, with the remaining divided equally between Pakistan and India. As well as, Kabul ought to earn lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in transit charges.

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