{"id":22130,"date":"2026-09-19T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/taliban-inaugurate-industrial-park-hairatan-customs-area-balkh\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:30:24","slug":"taliban-inaugurate-industrial-park-hairatan-customs-area-balkh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/taliban-inaugurate-industrial-park-hairatan-customs-area-balkh\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban inaugurate new industrial park at Hairatan customs area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has inaugurated the Imam Shafiq Balkhi industrial park in the Hairatan customs area of Balkh province, in a project announced at a time when expanding productive infrastructure and creating sustainable jobs are considered among the essential needs of Afghanistan\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, the deputy economic chief of the Taliban&#8217;s administration, said at the inauguration ceremony that the administration wants to gradually transform the country from a consumer nation into a producer nation.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks during the opening ceremony of the industrial park at Hairatan port. The report does not provide further details on the park\u2019s capacity, investment, or the number of factories.<\/p>\n<p>Hairatan is one of Afghanistan\u2019s most important trade crossings in Balkh province, and the port\u2019s customs area is considered a key route for the movement of goods between Afghanistan and Central Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban inaugurate the Imam Shafiq Balkhi industrial park at Hairatan customs area in Balkh province, aiming to boost production and jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22130","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\/22130","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=22130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}