Hairatan

In the early 1990s, the 70th division of General Abdul Momen, who was an ally of Abdul Rashid Dostum and the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, was located in the Hairaton area. After the death of Momen from the RPG on January 5, 1994, the 70th division came under the command of Colonel-General Helaluddin's ally Dostum. ^[one]

After the deposition of the Taliban government and the formation of the Karzai government, the importance of the city increased because increased traffic. A new NATO training center for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) was created to ensure the safety of the transport hub. The city has Afghan Border Police (AVR) forces that guard the border, and the Afghan National Customs also regulates and controls trade operations. They rely on the help of the Afghan Armed Forces and members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Railway Terminal

The cargo terminal in Hairatan is one of three railway crossings in Afghanistan - 10 km from Termez. ^[2] On January 22, 2010, construction began on 75 km of the railway line from Hairaton to the terminal in Gur-e Mare, near the town of Mazar-i-Sharif , the second largest trading center in Afghanistan. The project is implemented within the framework of the transport strategy and action plan of the program of the Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation, scheduled to be completed by June 2011. ^{[3] [4]}

May 25, 2010, US Ambassador Carl Eikenberry, President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Afghan Finance Minister, Minister of Mines, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, in the presence of fellow ambassadors from Japan, Finland and Uzbekistan, took part in the opening ceremony of the railway lines Hairatan. The United States and Japan are the two largest shareholders of ADB. ADB grant covers 97% of the total project cost of $ 170 million, the Afghan Government has made a contribution of $ 5 million. This railway is the first phase of a larger network of railways planned for the country, including additional lines to Herat in the West and Shirkhan-Bandar in the northeast. In Herat, the line will be connected to the lines of Iran , and in Shirkhan-Bandar - to the lines of Tajikistan . These lines will create a railway corridor through Northern Afghanistan for cargo arriving from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the direction of the ports of the Persian Gulf , in order to avoid the need to pass through Turkmenistan . ^{[5] [6] [7]}