{"id":19548,"date":"2026-08-12T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/12\/pakistan-opposition-abkhazia-trade-routes-afghanistan-reopening\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:30:49","slug":"pakistan-opposition-abkhazia-trade-routes-afghanistan-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/12\/pakistan-opposition-abkhazia-trade-routes-afghanistan-reopening\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan opposition figures call for immediate reopening of trade routes with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahmood Khan Achakzai, leader of the opposition in Pakistan&#8217;s parliament, and Sohail Afridi, chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, have condemned the prolonged closure of trade routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan and called for their immediate reopening.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued about the meeting between the two in Islamabad, participants said the continued closure of these routes has had a severe impact on the business and livelihoods of thousands of traders, merchants, labourers, drivers and transport companies in border areas.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this, Sohail Afridi met Mahmood Khan Achakzai at his residence in Islamabad. The main focus of the meeting was said to be the economic consequences of the continued closure of trade routes between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and Afghanistan use several major border crossings for trade and the movement of goods, and any halt along these routes usually affects residents and economic actors in border areas first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan opposition figures urge immediate reopening of trade routes with Afghanistan after prolonged closures hit border businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19548","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\/19548","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=19548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}