{"id":23074,"date":"2026-10-03T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/03\/afghanistan-assets-frozen-economic-recovery-taliban-balkhi\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:30:16","slug":"afghanistan-assets-frozen-economic-recovery-taliban-balkhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/03\/afghanistan-assets-frozen-economic-recovery-taliban-balkhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Afghan Assets Slow Economic Recovery, Taliban Foreign Ministry Spokesman Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesperson for the Taliban administration&#8217;s Foreign Ministry, said that the continued freezing of Afghanistan&#8217;s assets, sanctions and other barriers have slowed the country&#8217;s development and economic recovery. He described these as a failure by the international community to fulfill its responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ITV News, Balkhi said the Taliban administration had carried out its responsibilities &#8220;well&#8221; and that Afghanistan was on a positive path, but he said countries around the world had failed to meet their obligations.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed foreign powers were holding Afghanistan&#8217;s assets as a political tool to, in his words, pressure the Afghan people because they had not yielded to those powers&#8217; demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi says frozen Afghan assets and sanctions are slowing the country&#8217;s economic recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23074","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\/23074","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=23074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}