{"id":20334,"date":"2026-08-25T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/panjshir-emeralds-sold-for-nearly-33-million-afghanis-in-auction\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:13:57","slug":"panjshir-emeralds-sold-for-nearly-33-million-afghanis-in-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/panjshir-emeralds-sold-for-nearly-33-million-afghanis-in-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Panjshir emeralds sold for nearly 33 million afghanis in auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials in Panjshir have announced that 3,842 carats of emeralds, offered in 22 samples, were sold at a Tuesday auction for nearly 33 million afghanis.<\/p>\n<p>Saifuddin Laton, spokesman for the Panjshir governor, said in a statement that the emeralds were sold to traders from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, more than 100 young people from Panjshir province took part in the auction, and some of them have only recently entered the emerald trade.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s spokesman also claimed that holding emerald auctions, in addition to generating revenue, helps introduce the province\u2019s natural resources and expand commercial activity.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said that Hafiz Mohammad Agha Hakim, the Taliban-appointed governor of Panjshir, has worked to develop mining extraction areas and the tourism industry in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Panjshir is one of Afghanistan\u2019s best-known provinces for emerald mining, and the province\u2019s precious stones have been sold repeatedly through auctions in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Panjshir say 3,842 carats of emeralds were sold in auction for nearly 33 million afghanis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20334","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\/20334","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=20334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}