{"id":24529,"date":"2026-09-05T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24529"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:01:10","slug":"khyber-traders-suffer-2-5-billion-losses-from-trade-suspension-with-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/khyber-traders-suffer-2-5-billion-losses-from-trade-suspension-with-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Khyber traders suffer $2.5 billion losses from trade suspension with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Yousaf Afridi, president of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says traders in the province have suffered losses of around $2.5 billion following the closure of crossings and the suspension of trade with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Landi Kotal, Afridi said the losses include $1.644 billion in exports and around $817 million in imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed that the continued closure of trade routes between Afghanistan and Pakistan has negatively affected traders and economic activity on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks come as the suspension of trade between Kabul and Islamabad has also caused significant losses for Pakistani businesses and traders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Yousaf Afridi, president of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says traders in the province have suffered losses of around $2.5 billion following the closure of crossings and the suspension of trade with Afghanistan. Speaking at a press conference in Landi Kotal, Afridi said the losses include $1.644 billion in exports and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24531,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24529\/revisions\/24531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}