Afghan officials said at a gathering on Wednesday that the practical work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Pipeline project will kick off in 2018.

Senior advisor to President Ashraf Ghani on financial and banking affairs, Ajmal Ahmadi, said the project will be up and running in 2019.

He said three gas distribution centers will be established in Kandahar, Herat and Helmand provinces to benefit from the project.

In this episode of Bazar, host Nargis Musavi discusses the topic with Abdul Qadeer Mutfi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Mine.