Lost Highway

As reported by the New Zealand Herald, auditors are questioning whether aid donors like the U.S. and Britain got any value from the massive highway construction project in Afghanistan meant to link major cities, one of the biggest ‘reconstruction’ projects of the war:

The 2700km Highway 1, largely bankrolled by American and Saudi millions, was seen as a symbol of Afghanistan’s emergence as a modern democratic nation. But senior figures within the British Foreign Office have questioned the priority given to the project – and the standard of the road.
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A confidential paper under discussion in the department claims the road is not completely “metalled” and has a layer of tarmac too thin to last an Afghan winter, leaving long stretches in danger of disintegration.

If I could quote Gomer Pyle here: “Well surpriiiiise, surpriiiiise, surpriiiiise.”

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