{"id":74927,"date":"2024-03-24T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pakistan-afghanistan-to-hold-crucial-trade-talks-in-kabul-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T16:39:06","slug":"pakistan-afghanistan-to-hold-crucial-trade-talks-in-kabul-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pakistan-afghanistan-to-hold-crucial-trade-talks-in-kabul-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, Afghanistan to hold crucial trade talks in Kabul | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nISLAMABAD:
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Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold crucial trade talks on Monday in Kabul, days after Pakistan conducted air strikes inside Afghanistan, targeting terrorist hideouts.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecretary of Commerce Khurrum Agha will undertake a two-day visit to Afghanistan on Monday, 25th March 2024, to discuss trade-related matters. Pakistan remains committed to promoting trade and people-to-people ties with Afghanistan,\u201d read a terse statement issued by the Foreign Office on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Commerce Secretary will be accompanied by other senior officials at talks taking place amid tensions between the two estranged neighbours.<\/p>\n

The worsening ties have undermined bilateral trade between the two countries in recent months. The frequent border closures due to a variety of reasons also negatively impacted trade ties.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0We don\u2019t want armed conflict with Afghanistan: Asif<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Afghan Taliban authorities insist that trade and commercial ties must not be linked with the political relationship.<\/p>\n

Pakistan, not happy with the Taliban government for its reluctance to act against the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliates, took a series of measures in October last year to end the misuse of Afghan transit trade facilities.<\/p>\n

Pakistan included certain items in the negative list, introduced 100 per cent bank guarantees, and other measures. Afghan authorities claim that Pakistan’s steps led to a 50 per cent reduction in trade through Pakistan, with the same shifting to Iran.<\/p>\n

Also read:\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s airstrikes in Afghanistan \u2014 the aftermath<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But Pakistan said the steps were necessary to stop the misuse of Afghan transit trade facilities. There was an abnormal increase in Afghan imports through transit trade in 2022-23. Some items, which had no demand in Afghanistan, saw unprecedented imports.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the transit trade facilities were being misused to smuggle back goods meant for Afghanistan into Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, in a recent interview, threatened to block the trade corridor that Afghanistan is using to export goods to India through Pakistan if cross-border terrorist attacks do not stop.<\/p>\n

Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been tense for months over the issue of TTP.<\/p>\n

On March 18, Pakistan conducted an intelligence-based anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan. The strikes were in retaliation to the March 16 Mir Ali terrorist attack that killed seven soldiers, including two officers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold crucial trade talks on Monday in Kabul, days after Pakistan conducted air strikes inside Afghanistan, targeting terrorist hideouts. \u201cSecretary of Commerce Khurrum Agha will undertake a two-day visit to Afghanistan on Monday, 25th March 2024, to discuss trade-related matters. Pakistan remains committed to promoting trade and people-to-people ties with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/1537155-kptrade-1508561504\/1537155-kptrade-1508561504.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}