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World road traffic safety day held in Kabul
Officials in Ministry of Transportation and aviation have held the World road traffic safety day in Kabul for the first time, expressing their deep concerns over roads condition in the entire country.
Meanwhile the President special envoy for the good Governance message declared the ground transportation problems, none standard roads condition have overshadowed the economy of the country.
Deputy Minister of Transportation and aviation Sayed Wali Sultan said,” We have gained 94th position in the world on traffic accidents, last year we have lost 1400 of our citizens, 4000 others were injured due to roads condition and Transportation problems across the country.”
The message which has been delivered by the head office of the President special envoy for the good governance Rahimullah Murshidi stating that poor controlling and monitoring of the heavy traffics on the roads have caused the roads situation becomes worst in Afghanistan, this issue has increased the problems within the social life of Afghans.
Officials in Ministry of Public interests have declared the bad conditioning of the roads in Afghanistan, corruption, and none standard working over the roads, the majority of the roads in Afghanistan were asphalted by the private construction companies and they are the main factors for the following issues.
Head of the road safety of Ministry of Public interests Rais Khalil said,” the major destruction of the roads comes from the heavy loaded trucks, corrupted scales.”
“Nothing is standard here in Afghanistan, there is no transparent monitoring management policy to be implemented by the Government to protect the roads condition stable Head of one of the private companies Qurban Ali Nazari said,”
As sustainable solutions for all classes of road have not been identified, particularly low-traffic rural and remote roads, a hierarchy of control should be applied, similar to classifications used to improve occupational safety and health.
At the highest level is sustainable prevention of serious injury and death crashes, with sustainable requiring all key result areas to be considered.
At the second level is real time risk reduction, which involves providing users at severe risk with a specific warning to enable them to take mitigating action.
The third level is about reducing the crash risk which involves applying the road design standards and guidelines (such as from AASHTO), improving driver behavior and enforcement.
Based on the estimation leaked from the Ministry of Public interests 8000 kilo meters of roads were asphalted, and 14000 kilo meters were graveled since 2001.
Reported by Nabila Hafizi
Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, met with representatives from the ministries of foreign affairs, defense and interior of Malaysia, along with other senior officials, on Wednesday and called on Malaysians to invest in Afghanistan.
The visiting delegation is being led by senior diplomat Dr. Shazelina Zainul Abidin.
According to the IEA’s foreign ministry, the two sides discussed bilateral trade, holding a business communication conference to strengthen trade relations between the two countries, the trade balance between Afghanistan and Malaysia, and creating a market for Afghan products, including carpets, cotton, and minerals.
According to the ministry, at the end of the meeting, the Acting Minister emphasized the increase of investment from regional countries in Afghanistan and called on Malaysian investors to also invest in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior says that Afghanistan has started exporting goods to Turkey via the Herat-Khaf railway line.
In a post on X, the ministry said: “Afghanistan’s exports to Turkey started in a calm atmosphere through the Herat-Khaf railway line.”
The ministry added that one train will run daily for a month and then two trains will run daily.
According to the ministry, the security of Khaf-Herat railway line is provided by the guards of the National Public Protection Agency.
Khaf-Herat railway project not only connects Iran and Afghanistan by rail, but also completes a 2,000-kilometer route along the east-west rail corridor from China, through Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan, to Iran, and on to Turkey and Europe.
As a landlocked country, this railway network will provide a safe route to connect with Europe via Iran’s railway network and Iran’s southern ports.
This railway line is strategic for trade between Iran and Afghanistan and will allow six million tons of goods to be sent between the two countries.
A joint expo between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan will be held in Kabul in the next four days, officials said on Sunday.
Officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said that the two-day expo will be held for the purpose of expanding and strengthening trade relations between the two countries.
“This expo will be held as a follow-up of the Kazakh-Afghan international expo, which was held in the city of Astana, Kazakhstan, with the participation of a large delegation of the government and the private sector of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” Abdulsalam Javad Akhundzadeh, the spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, said.
“At this expo, domestic products from different sectors of Afghanistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan will be put on display for two days.”
According to officials, 40 large Kazakh companies, and 40 large Afghan companies will exhibit their products.
Mohammad Saber Latifi, head of the Afghanistan International Expo Center, said that fruits, minerals and commercial services will be displayed at the expo.
During the expo, various memorandums of understanding for the trade of goods are also expected to be signed by companies.
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