{"id":24710,"date":"2026-10-25T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/25\/pakistan-auctions-afghan-traders-containers-karachi-port\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:10:19","slug":"pakistan-auctions-afghan-traders-containers-karachi-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/25\/pakistan-auctions-afghan-traders-containers-karachi-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan auctions off hundreds of Afghan traders&#8217; containers at Karachi port over taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi Port customs authorities have auctioned off hundreds of containers carrying goods belonging to Afghan traders over tax demands and heavy demurrage charges. Images released by an auction company show the goods inside the containers being offered for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce have described the move as contrary to regional and international trade laws and have voiced concern over its negative impact on economic relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes as political tensions and border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan have escalated, while the closure of border crossings has caused major disruption to bilateral trade.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, trade between the two countries in the current fiscal year has fallen by about 95% compared with the previous fiscal year because of the tensions and the closure of border crossings, a situation that has had a serious impact on the economy of Afghan traders and the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has auctioned hundreds of Afghan traders&#8217; containers at Karachi port, as trade tensions and border closures hit bilateral commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24710","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\/24710","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=24710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}