{"id":"2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","canonicalSlug":"2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","language":"en","title":"Khost starts an AFN 8.5 million streetlight project","summary":"Khost Municipality says a streetlight installation project has begun in city districts three and four, funded at AFN 8.5 million from its development budget.","body":["Khost Municipality has begun installing streetlights in the city’s third and fourth municipal districts, according to a 10 October report by Bakhtar News Agency. The agency attributed the project details to Rahmatullah Zwak, the municipality’s technical and professional director, who said the work is funded from the municipal development budget at a cost of AFN 8.5 million.","Zwak said completion is expected within three months. Once finished, the lights are intended to illuminate main roads at night and make evening travel easier for residents. The report does not give the number of lights, streets covered or an exact completion date, and the planned benefits have not yet been reported as achieved."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Khost starts an AFN 8.5 million streetlight project\n\nKhost Municipality says a streetlight installation project has begun in city districts three and four, funded at AFN 8.5 million from its development budget.\n\nKhost Municipality has begun installing streetlights in the city’s third and fourth municipal districts, according to a 10 October report by Bakhtar News Agency. The agency attributed the project details to Rahmatullah Zwak, the municipality’s technical and professional director, who said the work is funded from the municipal development budget at a cost of AFN 8.5 million.\n\nZwak said completion is expected within three months. Once finished, the lights are intended to illuminate main roads at night and make evening travel easier for residents. The report does not give the number of lights, streets covered or an exact completion date, and the planned benefits have not yet been reported as achieved.","category":"economy","region":"world","topics":["non-oil-economy"],"eventDate":"2026-10-10","eventDateBasis":"Bakhtar News Agency published its report on 10 October and attributed the update to Khost Municipality’s technical and professional director, who said streetlight installation had begun. The source does not separately state the project start day, so the event date follows the dated report.","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T20:21:07Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-12T00:00:50Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-10T20:18:31Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-10","translatedAt":"2026-10-10T20:01:32Z","sources":[{"url":"https://www.bakhtarnews.af/en/Development-Project-Worth-Over-8-Million-AFN-Launched-in-Khost","name":"Bakhtar News Agency — Development Project Worth Over 8 Million AFN Launched in Khost","checkedAt":"2026-10-10","attribution":"Source: Bakhtar News Agency, reporting Khost Municipality’s technical and professional director. Original factual paraphrase; no source image or prose reproduced.","publishedAt":"2026-10-10"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/2026-oct10-global-extra-asia-af-khost-streetlights"},"corrections":[{"at":"2026-10-12T00:00:50Z","language":"en","text":"Completed full translations and corrected localized terminology and explanatory labels to preserve all original details."}],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["project-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"event-location","countryCode":"AF","subdivisionCode":"AF-KHO"}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation","plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}