{"id":1353,"date":"2025-11-02T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/02\/khaf-herat-railway-imports-increase-taliban\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:23:52","slug":"khaf-herat-railway-imports-increase-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/02\/khaf-herat-railway-imports-increase-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Imports via Khaf-Herat Railway Increase Fivefold, Taliban Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration in Afghanistan&#8217;s Herat province claims that imports via the Khaf-Herat railway line have increased fivefold compared to last year, with up to 2,000 tons of goods now entering Afghanistan daily from Iran through this route.<\/p>\n<p>According to Taliban officials, unloading operations at the Rozanak station continue on a daily basis. The railway, which connects Khaf in Iran to Herat in western Afghanistan, is considered one of the key infrastructure projects between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the first diesel shipment was delivered to Herat via this railway, and Taliban officials said a second fuel shipment is expected to arrive by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>While the Taliban seek to promote the Khaf-Herat railway as a strategic link connecting Afghanistan to Central Asia and Europe, the project\u2019s full potential remains underutilized due to a lack of transparency, poor management, and Afghanistan&#8217;s international isolation under Taliban rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imports via the Khaf-Herat railway from Iran to Afghanistan have increased fivefold, according to Taliban officials in Herat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","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\/1353","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=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}