{"id":1448,"date":"2025-11-05T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/05\/uzbekistan-afghanistan-fruit-exports-air-route\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:25:18","slug":"uzbekistan-afghanistan-fruit-exports-air-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/11\/05\/uzbekistan-afghanistan-fruit-exports-air-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan Opens Air Route for Afghan Fruit Exports Amid Pakistan Border Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbekistan has opened an air corridor to facilitate the export of fresh fruits and vegetables from Afghanistan, following Pakistan&#8217;s decision to close its border crossings to Afghan exports.<\/p>\n<p>Haji Zaid, spokesperson for the governor of Balkh province, said in a statement that the decision was made through an agreement between officials from Afghanistan\u2019s Balkh province and Uzbekistan\u2019s Surxondaryo province.<\/p>\n<p>Under this agreement, Afghan agricultural products can now be exported to international markets\u2014specifically Russia, China, and India\u2014via Uzbekistan\u2019s air corridors. Uzbek officials have assured Afghan traders that they will provide the necessary cooperation to support the trade.<\/p>\n<p>The closure of Pakistan\u2019s border crossings, particularly during the peak season for agricultural exports, has dealt a significant blow to Afghanistan\u2019s economy. The Taliban administration, which lacks control over foreign policy and has limited access to regional diplomatic channels, has so far been unable to find an effective solution to the country\u2019s export challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbekistan opens air route to aid Afghan fruit exports to Russia, China, and India after Pakistan closes border crossings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","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\/1448","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=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}