{"id":10394,"date":"2026-04-09T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/panjshir-emerald-sales-32-million-transparency\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:30:21","slug":"panjshir-emerald-sales-32-million-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/panjshir-emerald-sales-32-million-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Panjshir Emeralds Sales Reach $32 Million in One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from the Panjshir Mines and Petroleum Directorate have announced that over the past year, more than 111,000 carats of emeralds extracted from the province\u2019s mines have been sold for nearly $32 million. According to the directorate, the sales process was conducted through bidding, with the participation of both domestic and foreign traders.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the information provided, these emeralds were mined from the districts of Hesa Awal and Paryan\u2014areas known as major sources of emeralds in the country. Panjshir has long been recognized as one of Afghanistan\u2019s most important centers for producing high-quality emeralds.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Taliban administration has not yet disclosed details on how the revenues will be used or how the extraction and sales processes are supervised. Mining sector experts have consistently emphasized the need for transparency in contracts and the utilization of mining income to ensure that these resources are managed responsibly and for the benefit of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panjshir province sells over 111,000 carats of emeralds worth $32 million in a year, highlighting calls for transparency by mining experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}