{"id":1585,"date":"2025-05-02T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:38:04","slug":"afghan-and-pakistani-officials-meet-on-sidelines-of-iran-expo-2025-to-boost-agricultural-and-trade-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/afghan-and-pakistani-officials-meet-on-sidelines-of-iran-expo-2025-to-boost-agricultural-and-trade-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan and Pakistani Officials Meet on Sidelines of Iran Expo 2025 to Boost Agricultural and Trade Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weezharoz<\/strong>-During the meeting, both sides emphasized strengthening trade ties, developing industrial agriculture, investing in agricultural products, and supporting the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani traders noted that approximately 80% of trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan consists of agricultural and livestock products.<\/p>\n<p>They welcomed the reduction in corruption at border ports and called for immediate resolution of remaining challenges as well as the establishment of joint border markets.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Deputy Minister highlighted the importance of separating politics from economic matters, warning that any rift between the two countries would result in mutual economic losses.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Pakistani businessmen to provide constructive advice to their government in order to strengthen economic relations.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the difference in growing seasons between the two countries, Usmani added that Afghanistan and Pakistan could serve as complementary markets for each other\u2019s agricultural products.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting comes as Afghanistan was named one of Iran&#8217;s main target export markets during Iran Expo 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Exhibition organizers welcomed the strong presence of Afghan trade delegations at the international event and underlined the importance of expanding economic relations with neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Iran Expo 2025, held from April 28 to May 3 at the Tehran International Permanent Fairground, served as a platform to showcase Iran\u2019s export capabilities and foster regional economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Weezharoz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weezharoz-During the meeting, both sides emphasized strengthening trade ties, developing industrial agriculture, investing in agricultural products, and supporting the private sector. The Pakistani traders noted that approximately 80% of trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan consists of agricultural and livestock products. They welcomed the reduction in corruption at border ports and called for immediate resolution of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}