KABUL, Apr 10 (NNN-ANA) – The Afghan caretaker government, decided to extract crude oil from the Qashqari oil basin, in the northern Sari Pul province, to increase local products and create job opportunities, said a statement released here yesterday.
The process began on Thursday, after a ceremony and the first phase would see a daily production of 200 tonnes of crude oil, said the statement, released by the Information and Culture department of Sari Pul province.
Speaking at the ceremony, Acting Deputy Prime Minister, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, said that, the income generated from the production would be collected to the country’s central bank.
The acting deputy prime minister, however, didn’t say, if the crude oil would be refined inside the country or sent abroad.
This is the second major economic project, inaugurated over the past month, in the country. Earlier, Baradar inaugurated the construction of a 285 km-long water canal, in northern Balkh province, that could irrigate 550,000 hectares of land.– NNN-ANA
