KABUL (Pajhwok): A Chinese company has offered to invest $10 billion and also build another tunnel at the Salang Pass if it is given the contract to explore lithium reserves in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum wrote on its Twitter page today (Thursday) that Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum Shahabuddin Dilawar met with representative of the Chinese company in his office.
The Chinese said they wanted to invest $10 in Afghanistan’s lithium mines, which will provide jobs to 120,000 people directly and to one million people indirectly.
They also proposed that if the lithium mining . . .
