{"id":24692,"date":"2026-10-25T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/25\/taliban-approves-17-projects-worth-nearly-5-billion-afghanis\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:14:30","slug":"taliban-approves-17-projects-worth-nearly-5-billion-afghanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/25\/taliban-approves-17-projects-worth-nearly-5-billion-afghanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Approves 17 Projects Worth Nearly 5 Billion Afghanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has approved 17 projects worth around 5 billion Afghanis.<\/p>\n<p>The procurement commission, led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the economic deputy prime minister of the Taliban administration, approved the implementation of 17 different projects in infrastructure sectors.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the office of the economic deputy prime minister, the projects include the construction of parts of the Aqinah customs facilities, the rehabilitation of the first section of the Helmand-Herat road, the expansion of a 220-kilovolt power transmission line for the Shashir Shahi facilities in Nangarhar, the construction of a 40-megavolt-ampere substation to transfer power to the gas factory in the Yatim Taqi area of Jawzjan province, the construction of several roads in Kabul, and electricity transmission and distribution projects in various provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the economic deputy prime minister also said the financing for these projects will be covered by the Islamic Emirate. However, it is not clear from which sources these costs will be funded, and there are concerns about the transparency of the financial process and the economic impact of these plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban have approved 17 infrastructure projects worth nearly 5 billion Afghanis, including roads, customs facilities and power lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692","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=24692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}