{"id":23240,"date":"2026-10-04T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/04\/afghanistan-girls-education-ban-economic-future-mohammad-halim-fidai\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:00:15","slug":"afghanistan-girls-education-ban-economic-future-mohammad-halim-fidai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/04\/afghanistan-girls-education-ban-economic-future-mohammad-halim-fidai\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Logar Governor Says Girls&#8217; Education Ban Threatens Afghanistan&#8217;s Economic Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Halim Fidai, former governor of Logar, has warned that the continuation of educational restrictions, especially the ban on girls\u2019 education, could have negative and long-term consequences for Afghanistan\u2019s economic future. He also said the absence of a &#8220;democratic, law-based and accountable&#8221; system is among the obstacles to achieving the country\u2019s economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Fidai described the opening of a corridor from the Wakhan route to China as a major and strategic move, saying that expanding transit routes to Central Asia and China could reduce Afghanistan\u2019s dependence on routes through Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>He described Afghanistan\u2019s connection to new ports, air corridors and Asian markets as part of the economic vision of the former government led by Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, a vision that, according to Fidai, aimed to turn Afghanistan into an economic and transit hub.<\/p>\n<p>Fidai also referred to the Qosh Tepa Canal, the TAPI project, the construction of water dams and the digitisation of governance as part of the former government&#8217;s plans, saying the results of these projects will become clearer over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Logar governor Mohammad Halim Fidai warns that bans on girls&#8217; education threaten Afghanistan&#8217;s long-term economic future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23240","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\/23240","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=23240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}