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No Fine will be paid to third party on security of TAPI: Murad
Deputy chief of Army Murad Ali Murad has stated that we will not pay fine to anyone due to security of Gas pipe line called TAPI which connects Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, rejecting the Pakistan defense Minister statements on the following project saying for security of TAPI negotiations should be made with Taliban.
Experts believed that Afghan Government should negotiate with some of the groups and pay fines, saying Afghanistan doesn’t capabilities to maintain security of the Gas pipeline in the country.
Deputy chief of Army Murad Ali Murad said,” I condemned Pakistan Defense Minister statements made on Gas pipeline obliging Afghan Government to negotiate with Taliban on security of the project, we as Afghan security forces will ensure security for TAPI project, we won’t pay fines to anyone.”
A number of Afghan experts have declared that TAPI pipeline is vital to Afghanistan,and Afghan Government is have to pay fines for the security of the project.
Military expert Atiqullah Amarkhail said,” giving or receiving fines is common in Afghanistan,there are some Afghan political figures who are receiving fines from the Government, therefore Taliban has to receive fines out of this project.”
Afghanistan is benefiting from the following project through transit more than 400 $ million annually and TAPI will create more than 7000 jobs opportunities for Afghans as well.
Reported by Abdul Aziz Karimi
The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) confirmed Tuesday that in the last month of solar year 1402, (March 2024) Afghanistan’s exports totaled $141.1 million and imports totaled $789.6 million.
This was down from $174 million for exports in the same period in 1401. However, imports increased by $99.2 million in 1402, up from $690.4 million.
Most exports in the last month of 1402 went to Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates, while in the last month of 1401 exports went to Pakistan, India and China.
The Ministry of Interior said the governor of Herat province Islam Jar met with Alim Khan Yasin Gildaye, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Afghanistan, to discuss various issues around trade.
According to the ministry, the two sides discussed the expansion of trade facilities, increasing the volume of trade exchanges between traders of the two countries, reducing customs tariffs, solving the challenges of traders and issuing visas to them.
The Afghanistan-Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce has been opened in Herat in order to facilitate and increase trade between the two countries.
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) says Afghanistan has reached self-sufficiency in 45 sectors and the production of 133 items, and that the ministry is striving to change Afghanistan from an importing country to an exporting one.
The ministry officials said that for this purpose, supporting domestic products and attracting investment is essential.
The ministry’s spokesman Abdul Salam Jawad Akhundzada emphasized increasing the use of domestic goods and products in government and national projects and added that efforts have also begun to find a market for domestic products inside and outside the country.
“We have reached self-sufficiency in 133 items of production, which is 45 sectors, and also we reached the capacity of semi-self-sufficiency in 95 items of production, which is 27 sectors,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Chamber of Industries and Mines (ACIM) says over the past two and a half years, more attention has been paid to the development of domestic production and it is also expanding.
The chamber officials stressed expanding the culture of using domestic products in government projects.
“I think that the government is one of the biggest consumers in the market if it uses domestic products in all its development projects,” said Abdul Nasir Rashtia, a member of ACIM.
Economic experts also said that if the use of domestic products in government projects increases, Afghanistan will quickly move towards economic independence.
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