The Taliban on Friday announced stout support for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project, hailing it as a landmark scheme for the country’s economic prosperity. Construction work on the Afghan section of the multi-billion dollars natural gas pipeline — linking energy-rich Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India, got underway in Western Herat province today. The launch of work on the Afghan section of the pipeline was happy news for all Afghans, it added. The group blamed the US for indirect meddling on a massive copper project in central Logar province. To achieve their designs, it feared, the Americans might try to impede the TAPI pipeline.

Source: Pakistan Today February 23, 2018 11:15 UTC