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People of Pactya Province constructing a secondary road at Mangal
the north was built, it was impossible to envisage such a task; technically and economically the country could not have borne the burden of such an enterprise. Today, however, with the technical assistance that is furnished to us by the Soviet Union, this project has passed from the realm of imagination to that of reality. The Labour Corps of the Ministry of Public Works, guided by engineers from the U.S.S.R., has actively undertaken the construction of the Salang Highway. This new road, which is part of the general project of road improve-
ment and construction from Kabul to the North of Afghanistan, branches off at Charikar from the existing road and joins it again at Doshi, shortening the present route by 150 km.
Work on the road has been divided into three phases:
Phase I :From Doshi to Do Shakh
Phase II : From Jabalussaraj to Awlang
and
Phase III : From Awlang to Do Shakh through the Salang tunnel.
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