Teshkan Bridge
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The Teshkan Bridge in Badashkhan is a bridge across the Kokcha River.[1][2] Highway 302, which crosses the bridge, is the only road connection between Badashkhan and the rest of Afghanistan.[3]
In 1999 the bridge was a strategic resource fought over by two competing militia leaders.[4]
In 2007 ISAF forces and Provincial Reconstruction Team Feyzabad reconstructed a bridge built by the Soviet Union.[1] The new bridge took two months to build. A steel frame and a new surface were built on top of the existing bridge, using the existing bridge pier. The Governor of Badashkhan presided over the ribbon-cutting on October 16, 2007, when the bridge was recommissioned.