{"id":1225,"date":"2025-10-28T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/10\/28\/afghanistan-kazakhstan-economic-cooperation-taliban-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:21:50","slug":"afghanistan-kazakhstan-economic-cooperation-taliban-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/10\/28\/afghanistan-kazakhstan-economic-cooperation-taliban-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan and Kazakhstan Discuss Expanding Economic Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban-run Ministry of Industry and Commerce has announced that talks aimed at strengthening economic ties were held during the &#8220;Afghanistan-Kazakhstan Business Connectivity Forum&#8221; in the Kazakh city of Shymkent. The primary focus of the meeting was on enhancing economic relations, facilitating joint investment opportunities, and increasing trade volume between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce under the Taliban administration, stated during the forum that Afghanistan could serve as a bridge between Central and South Asia, playing a significant role in promoting regional trade and economic integration.<\/p>\n<p>At the forum, both Afghan and Kazakh representatives pledged to reinforce trade relations and boost exports between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>While the Taliban administration aims to position Afghanistan as a regional transit and trade hub, the lack of international recognition, banking restrictions, and ongoing security challenges under its rule have hindered sustainable investment and balanced economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan and Kazakhstan hold talks in Shymkent to enhance economic ties, explore joint investments, and increase trade despite Taliban-era challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","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=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}