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International Asian Highway

4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM

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International Asian Highway

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1/1/1967 10:27:41 AM

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International Asian Highway

4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM

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International Asian Highway

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Headline International Asian Highway

Caption Description The Asian Highway, a project initiated in 1958 by the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), aims at modernizing and linking up existing roads into a 34,000 miles network of highways that would span Asia from Turkey and Iraq to the Republic of Viet-Nam, Singapore and Indonesia. The Highway network will service an area of some 2,500,000 square miles with a population of over six hundred million. Priority Route A-I (about 6,500 miles) runs from Saigon through eight countries: The Republic of Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, India, East and West Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, to the Turkish border, where connections can be made to the highway systems of the Middle East and Europe. Priority Route A-2 (about 7,600 miles) runs from the Iraq border to Singapore, through Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand and Malaysia, continuing into Indonesia where, after a ferry crossing from Singapore to Djakarta, it will run the whole length of the island to Java. The Highest tunnel in the world is being built by the Afghan Government some 62 miles to the north of Kabul. The Salang tunnel which will cut through the heart of the Hindu Kush mountain range at a height of 10,000 feet, will be 8,250 feet long and will shorten the existing road by 120 miles. It was necessary to build a 4 1/2 mile long gallery against avalanches along the approach road to the tunnel. Some sections of the major roads in Afghanistan are being built under bilateral programmes.
Photograph shows the view from the entrance of the gallery.
April 1964.

Unique Identifier UN7712088

NICA ID 135608

Production Date 04/01/1964 10:27:41 AM

Country Afghanistan

Credit UN Photo/WT