{"id":19296,"date":"2026-08-08T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/pakistan-considers-reopening-trade-transit-routes-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:00:20","slug":"pakistan-considers-reopening-trade-transit-routes-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/08\/pakistan-considers-reopening-trade-transit-routes-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Considers Reopening All Trade and Transit Routes with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani newspaper &#8216;Jang&#8217; has reported that there is a possibility of reopening all ports and trade and transit routes between Afghanistan and Pakistan; a route whose closure in recent months has disrupted the trade and movement of thousands of residents in both countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan\u2019s Interior Minister, stated in a meeting with senior officials and businessmen that talks have taken place to remove existing barriers to trade with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Jang&#8217; report also highlights that the meeting emphasized normalizing economic relations between the two countries and facilitating legal and easy movement of people.<\/p>\n<p>Trade routes between Afghanistan and Pakistan had been closed following clashes and attacks in October last year, leading to widespread consequences for exports, imports, and transit activities on both sides of the border. Pakistan is considered one of the most important transit routes for Afghan goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan may reopen all trade and transit routes with Afghanistan, aiming to restore disrupted trade and movement after last year&#8217;s closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19296","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\/19296","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=19296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}