{"id":18029,"date":"2026-07-20T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/taliban-ministry-signs-109-mining-contracts-domestic-companies\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:30:37","slug":"taliban-ministry-signs-109-mining-contracts-domestic-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/taliban-ministry-signs-109-mining-contracts-domestic-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Ministry Signs 109 Mining Contracts with Domestic Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum announced that in the previous solar year, it signed 109 mining extraction contracts with domestic companies. According to the ministry, this move is part of the process to transfer mining projects to the domestic private sector.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry stated that among these contracts, one is on a large scale, and the total value of all contracts exceeds 10.2 billion Afghanis. No further details have been provided about the types of mines or the locations where these contracts will be executed.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum also claimed that regional countries&#8217; interest in investing in Afghanistan&#8217;s mining sector is increasing.<\/p>\n<p>The mining sector is considered one of Afghanistan&#8217;s important sources of national revenue, and in recent years, the management and transfer of projects in this sector have consistently been a focus for economic stakeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Mines signed 109 contracts worth over 10.2 billion Afghanis with domestic firms, boosting private sector involvement in mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18029","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\/18029","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=18029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}