Afghanistan-Kazakhstan Trade Hits $3 Billion as Investment Delegation Arrives
Nureddin Azizi, the Taliban administration’s Minister of Industry and Trade, announced that a delegation led by Serik Zhumanğarin, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, along with several Kazakh businessmen, is arriving in Afghanistan to explore investment opportunities across multiple economic sectors.
According to Azizi, the delegation intends to assess investment capacities in Afghanistan’s carpet industry, dried and fresh fruit sectors, marble and other mineral resources. He added that Kazakh traders are also interested in investing in precious stones and pharmaceutical production in Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s Minister of Industry and Trade described the current volume of trade between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan as approximately three billion dollars, highlighting this figure as evidence of expanding economic relations between the two sides.
In recent years, the Taliban administration has sought to manage some of the country’s economic challenges by expanding trade relations with regional countries; however, experts consistently emphasize that attracting sustainable investment requires transparency, legal guarantees, and stability in economic policies—factors private sector actors consider vital for genuine trade growth.
