Presidential Palace, Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, joined in Sher Khan Port, Kunduz, by H.E. Imam Ali Rahmanov, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, inaugurated the construction work of the Sher Khan Port-Panjdh Payan bridge on Amu River linking Afghanistan and Tajiksitan. The President later left for Dushanbe on a one day working visit to Tajikistan.

The Afghanistan-Tajikistan bridge project will provide a two-lane vehicular bridge with a pedestrian walkway on one side connecting Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The bridge will span the Amu Darya-Pyandzh River at Sher Khan, Afghanistan and Nizhniy Pyandzh, Tajikistan. The Bridge construction is funded by the United States of America. The Project is expected to be completed in Spring 2007.

In Tajikistan, the President will hold talks with President Rahmanov,
on a range of issues notably bilateral and regional trade.