{"id":20733,"date":"2026-08-31T06:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/taliban-qatar-oil-gas-investment-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T06:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:15:16","slug":"taliban-qatar-oil-gas-investment-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/taliban-qatar-oil-gas-investment-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Says It Held Talks With Qatar on Oil and Gas Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration\u2019s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said acting minister Mullah Hedayatullah Badri met in Kabul with Qatar\u2019s ambassador, Dr. Mardouf Al-Qashouti, to discuss investment in Afghanistan\u2019s mines and natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the meeting examined investment opportunities in the mining sector, particularly oil and gas, and the two sides also shared their views on building a standard crude oil refinery.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban-run Ministry of Mines and Petroleum also said the acting minister welcomed Qatar\u2019s interest in these sectors and said he was ready to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as the Taliban administration has repeatedly spoken in recent months about efforts to attract foreign investment in the natural resources sector. The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum is one of the key bodies responsible for managing contracts and projects related to mines, oil and gas in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials say they discussed investment in Afghanistan\u2019s oil and gas sector with Qatar\u2019s ambassador in Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20733","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\/20733","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=20733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}