Work on TAPI gas pipeline starts in Afghanistan's Herat province

President of Turkmenistan Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov delivers a speech during the inauguration ceremony of TAPI pipeline construction work, in Herat, Afghanistan, Feb. 23, 2018. Work on TAPI gas pipeline to transfer the natural gas of Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India through Afghanistan was inaugurated in the western Herat province amid tight security on Friday. (Xinhua/Elyas)