{"id":24836,"date":"2026-10-27T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/afghanistan-central-customs-control-room-opens-21-million-afghanis\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:46:16","slug":"afghanistan-central-customs-control-room-opens-21-million-afghanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/afghanistan-central-customs-control-room-opens-21-million-afghanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Customs Control Room Opens in Afghanistan at a Cost of 21 Million Afghanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new central control room for the General Directorate of Customs under the Ministry of Finance has been built and put into operation at a cost of about 21 million Afghanis. The control room has been designed to monitor security cameras installed at five major customs offices in Afghanistan, including Herat, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Nimroz and Aqina.<\/p>\n<p>With the activation of this centre, the security cameras at these customs offices will be monitored around the clock, which is expected to improve oversight of security at these customs posts as well as the traffic routes used by transit cargo shipments.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the opening of this centre, concerns remain over widespread security and monitoring shortcomings at other customs offices across the country, as well as fundamental weaknesses in the management of imports and exports, which continue to facilitate smuggling and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Taliban administration has so far not taken effective steps toward comprehensive reforms in the country&#8217;s customs system, and this symbolic project, compared with the deep and extensive challenges, is seen as only a limited measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan opens a central customs control room for five major posts, but concerns persist over security gaps and corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24836","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\/24836","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=24836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}