{"id":18413,"date":"2026-07-26T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/26\/afghanistan-competitive-taliban-fights-corruption-telecommunications-it-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:15:18","slug":"afghanistan-competitive-taliban-fights-corruption-telecommunications-it-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/26\/afghanistan-competitive-taliban-fights-corruption-telecommunications-it-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan to Become More Competitive, Taliban&#8217;s Acting Industry Minister Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nouredin Azizi, the acting Minister of Industry and Commerce of the Taliban administration, emphasized at the opening ceremony of the first Telecommunications and Information Technology Exhibition that the administration aims to make Afghanistan competitive and to cleanse society of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed during the event that programs have been initiated to improve the competitive environment in the country and that efforts are underway to eliminate corruption from economic and administrative structures.<\/p>\n<p>The acting Minister also urged citizens to use technology in a &#8220;healthy&#8221; manner and to cooperate in what he described as &#8220;streamlining the country against competitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come as the Telecommunications and Information Technology Exhibition, the first event of its kind under the Taliban administration, was held. According to officials of the administration, the event was launched with the goal of showcasing the country\u2019s technological capacities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s acting Industry Minister vows to make Afghanistan competitive and fight corruption at the inaugural Telecommunications and IT Exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413","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=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}