International Asian Highway 
1/1/1967 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712987 
International Asian Highway 
1/1/1967 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712989 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712090 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712092 
International Asian Highway 
1/1/1967 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712985 
International Asian Highway 
1/1/1967 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712988 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712087 
International Asian Highway 
1/1/1967 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712986 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712088 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712089 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712086 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712094 
International Asian Highway 
1/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712105 
International Asian Highway 
1/1/1967 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712984 
International Asian Highway 
1/1/1967 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712990 
International Asian Highway 
10/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712111 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7708922 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712098 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712103 
International Asian Highway 
4/1/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Unique ID UN7712107 
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. Member governments have already invested large sums in an effort to improve the standards of the roads within their borders, and some have undertaken to eliminate the missing links between them and their neighbours.
A-1 route of the Asian Highway some 15 miles from Kabul. Construction of this road began about 20 years ago, virtually without any mechanical help. The road, which is almost completed, leads to the Khyber Pass. Some sections of the major roads in Afghanistan are being built under bilateral programmes.
April 1964. 
Unique Identifier UN7712091 
NICA ID 135611 
Production Date 04/01/1964 10:27:41 AM 
Country Afghanistan
Credit UN Photo/WT