{"id":21312,"date":"2026-09-07T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/khalilzad-afghanistan-ready-major-international-investment\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:00:13","slug":"khalilzad-afghanistan-ready-major-international-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/khalilzad-afghanistan-ready-major-international-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad Says Afghanistan Ready to Attract Major International Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US envoy for Afghanistan peace efforts, said Afghanistan is ready to attract major international investment.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks on Monday, Sept. 16, at the signing ceremony for an agreement between Afghanistan and a Saudi Arabian oil and gas company.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad said Afghanistan&#8217;s natural resources have the capacity to meet part of the needs of regional and international markets while also creating conditions for economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan has significant natural reserves, including oil and gas, resources that have long been seen as one of the country&#8217;s important economic assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad says Afghanistan is ready for major international investment as it signs an agreement with a Saudi oil and gas company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21312","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\/21312","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=21312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}