§ Mr. FREEMANasked the Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India have been officially advised or consulted with regard to the contract made by Afghanistan with the German firm for the construction of a railway linking Kabul with Torkhan, the last Afghan post on the Indian frontier; if the proposal contemplates the connection 642W of the main line from Kabul with the Russian rail-heads at Kask and Termez; and whether the Government of India have communicated to him their observations on the proposal?
§ Mr. BENNI have no official information of the existence of any such contract, though I have seen the newspaper report to which my hon. Friend no doubt refers.