{"id":5841,"date":"2026-02-01T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/01\/afghanistan-pakistan-trade-route-closure-healthcare-impact\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:00:19","slug":"afghanistan-pakistan-trade-route-closure-healthcare-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/01\/afghanistan-pakistan-trade-route-closure-healthcare-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Trade Routes Between Afghanistan and Pakistan Hits Pakistan&#8217;s Healthcare Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani media have reported that the closure of trade routes between Afghanistan and Pakistan has caused significant damage to hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Pakistan, disrupting healthcare service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pakistan&#8217;s Aaj News Network, this situation has led to a serious recession and shortages in the private pharmaceutical industry, which supplies a large portion of the country&#8217;s healthcare needs and relies heavily on imported raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani experts have warned that if this trade deadlock continues, citizens\u2019 access to medicines and medical services will face even greater challenges, further straining the healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>This report comes amid repeated disruptions to trade and transit relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent months; a situation worsened by the lack of stable management and effective coordination from the Taliban administration in Afghanistan\u2019s foreign trade sector, with consequences felt beyond the borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade route closures between Afghanistan and Pakistan severely impact Pakistan&#8217;s healthcare, causing medicine shortages and disrupting medical services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5841","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\/5841","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=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}