{"id":13590,"date":"2026-05-24T16:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/24\/afghanistan-replaces-non-standard-imported-vehicles-95-percent-progress\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:52:24","slug":"afghanistan-replaces-non-standard-imported-vehicles-95-percent-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/24\/afghanistan-replaces-non-standard-imported-vehicles-95-percent-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Nears Completion of Replacement Program for Non-Standard Imported Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation under the Taliban has announced that the process of replacing &#8220;non-standard&#8221; imported vehicles in the country has reached 95 percent completion. According to the ministry, the aim of this initiative is to provide better and standardized transportation services to citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Afasi, spokesperson for the ministry, stated that the agency is committed to establishing a fleet of standardized vehicles in the country to deliver higher quality transport services to residents. He added that efforts have begun to engage certain companies in this program.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, the fleet of imported vehicles\u2014deemed by Taliban officials as not meeting Afghanistan&#8217;s standards\u2014both in public transport and private vehicles, will gradually be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>However, no further details regarding the types of companies involved, the implementation process, or the impact on citizens&#8217; costs have been disclosed. Experts have consistently emphasized that transparency in contracts and oversight of such programs&#8217; implementation is crucial to prevent corruption and ensure public interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan has achieved 95% progress in replacing non-standard imported vehicles to improve transportation services nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13590","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\/13590","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=13590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}