{"id":2388,"date":"2020-12-19T12:43:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T12:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2020-12-19T12:43:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T12:43:48","slug":"deal-signed-for-new-township-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2020\/12\/deal-signed-for-new-township-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal signed for new township in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Ministry of Urban Development and Land on Saturday inked an agreement with a Qatari firm for the construction of a township in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for MoUDL Mahmoud Karzai said at the signing ceremony of an agreement the construction of a residential town was an important step in providing housing to the needy. According to Karzai, the construction of this township sponsored by the Qatari government has been started by Al-Gharafah firm and would cost around $ 100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Aziz Ahmad Gulistani, Deputy Minister of Urban Development and Lands, said the construction of the residential town on 32 jeribs of land with eight 12-story blocks having 768 apartments would be completed in one year.<\/p>\n<p>He said the town would be funded by Qatar\u2019s Al-Gharafa firm and would be distributed among the needy after a cabinet resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Economy Minister Karima Hamid Faryabi told the gathering that the construction of residential apartments would not only provide accommodation to the people, but also create job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the figures by the Ministry of Urban Development and Lands, Afghanistan needs over 40,000 housing units a year.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Urban Development and Land on Saturday inked an agreement with a Qatari firm for the construction of a township in Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,16,5,8,6],"tags":[12,166,390,391],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-business","category-report","category-politics_","category-governance","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-kabul","tag-housing","tag-urban-development"],"views":804,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}