{"id":269,"date":"2025-09-23T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/?p=269"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:49:27","slug":"taliban-russian-investors-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/09\/23\/taliban-russian-investors-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Official Meets Russian Investors on Afghanistan\u2019s Mining Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abdul Rahman Qanat, Deputy Minister for Policy and Programs at the Taliban-run Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, met with a group of Russian investors on September 21, 2025, to discuss potential investments in Afghanistan\u2019s mineral resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a statement from the ministry, representatives of a Russian company expressed satisfaction with what they described as \u201cnationwide security\u201d and voiced readiness to invest in the exploration, extraction, and processing of Afghanistan\u2019s mines. The company showed particular interest in lead and antimony deposits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban official welcomed the interest and pledged cooperation \u201cin accordance with the mining law and regulations.\u201d However, it remains unclear under what oversight, legal guarantees, or independent monitoring such projects would take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four years into Taliban rule, concerns persist about transparency and accountability in large-scale economic ventures. Human rights organizations and many governments still do not recognize the Taliban\u2019s domestic or international legitimacy, raising fears that Afghanistan\u2019s natural resources could be exploited through opaque deals rather than benefiting the Afghan people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian investors explore mining deals with Taliban, sparking concerns over transparency and Afghanistan\u2019s resource exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","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\/269","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}