Turkmen group due in Kabul as Taliban again TAPI pipeline

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

“We now have been working laborious for a while and we’re able to take satisfaction in beginning work on the TAPI undertaking,” Mohammad Issa Akhund, the performing minister of mines and petroleum within the new Taliban authorities, stated in a press release.

The Afghan stretch of the pipeline will run from the northwestern border with Turkmenistan, south by 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 stated.