{"id":20940,"date":"2026-09-02T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/taliban-herat-mazar-road-rail-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:03:14","slug":"taliban-herat-mazar-road-rail-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/taliban-herat-mazar-road-rail-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration Discusses Herat-Mazar Road and Rail Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration said officials in the provinces of Balkh and Herat have discussed the Herat-Mazar-e-Sharif railway, the construction of the Herat-Mazar-e-Sharif road, and coordination between the authorities of the two provinces.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Balkh provincial media and information centre, Balkh Governor Mohammad Yusuf Wafa met Herat Governor Noor Ahmad Islam Jar during a visit to Herat. The statement said the two sides discussed advancing transport projects and administrative cooperation between the two provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said the meeting stressed the creation of job opportunities, urban development, providing more facilities for the public, and strengthening cooperation between the administrations of the two provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Balkh in northern Afghanistan and Herat in the west are considered important commercial and transit provinces, and any road or rail project between them could affect movement and trade in various sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials in Balkh and Herat discuss the Herat-Mazar rail line, road construction, and wider provincial cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}