{"id":21490,"date":"2026-05-25T06:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21490"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:58:44","slug":"pakistani-religious-leader-calls-for-resumption-of-trade-with-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/pakistani-religious-leader-calls-for-resumption-of-trade-with-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani religious leader calls for resumption of trade with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has urged the Pakistan government to reopen all closed trade routes with Afghanistan and normalize economic relations between the two neighboring countries.<br>Speaking at a public gathering in Zhob, Naeem ur Rehman said that continued trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan is important for public welfare and Pakistan&#8217;s economic stability.<br>He criticized Islamabad\u2019s current policies, saying the closure of trade routes has negatively affected the businesses and livelihoods of thousands of people.<br>Earlier, political leaders, traders, and transport union representatives in Torkham and Landi Kotal had also described the prolonged closure of border crossings as \u201ceconomic destruction\u201d and called for their immediate reopening.<br>The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has meanwhile worked on alternative trade routes following restrictions imposed by Pakistan.<br>Economic analysts say Islamabad has suffered significant economic losses as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has urged the Pakistan government to reopen all closed trade routes with Afghanistan and normalize economic relations between the two neighboring countries.Speaking at a public gathering in Zhob, Naeem ur Rehman said that continued trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan is important for public welfare and Pakistan&#8217;s economic stability.He criticized Islamabad\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21492,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions\/21492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}