{"id":15590,"date":"2026-06-20T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/20\/mullah-baradar-visits-new-cement-factory-parwan-economic-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:30:16","slug":"mullah-baradar-visits-new-cement-factory-parwan-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/20\/mullah-baradar-visits-new-cement-factory-parwan-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban&#8217;s Mullah Baradar Visits New Cement Factory in Parwan Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs in the Taliban administration, visited the newly established Safwan cement factory in the Jabal al-Saraj district of Parwan province during his trip. According to the project officials, the factory, upon officially commencing operations, will produce between 5,000 to 9,000 tons of cement daily and provide employment opportunities for around 5,000 people. It is reported that this factory is considered one of the major industrial projects in the central regions of the country. During his visit, Mullah Baradar emphasized the importance of industrial and manufacturing investments and stated that the Taliban administration is committed to facilitating both domestic and foreign investors. He described the development of industry as a key factor for economic growth. However, several economic experts have consistently stressed that the practical realization of such commitments requires transparency in administrative processes, protection of investors&#8217; rights, and establishing a predictable economic environment\u2014issues that have posed significant challenges for the private sector in the country in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mullah Baradar visited the new Safwan cement factory in Parwan, highlighting industrial investment as key to Afghanistan&#8217;s economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15590","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\/15590","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=15590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}