Afghan Trade Holds Steady in 2025 Despite Pakistan Border Closures

Afghan Trade Holds Steady in 2025 Despite Pakistan Border Closures

Afghanistan’s trade showed surprising resilience in 2025, despite repeated closures of key border crossings with Pakistan. The disruptions, linked to ongoing security tensions, could have severely hampered the landlocked country’s access to seaports and traditional transit routes. However, commerce ministry data shows that Afghan exporters and importers successfully adapted by relying on alternative corridors through […] The post Afghan Trade Ho…

A border dispute with human consequences

The fate of Pakistan and Afghanistan, particularly in the public sphere, is interconnected with one another. Downfalls in relations have a large-scale impact on the people of the Pak-Afghan frontier who live side by side. If the power corridors of Islamabad and Kabul continue to pursue the existing atmosphere of coldness and suspicion, it will bring nothing but ruin for the geographically constrained people. The October 2025 border dispute led t…

No shortage of goods in Afghanistan as Kabul turns to alternative trade routes

Kabul, Jan 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan continues to face massive losses from the prolonged shutdown of border crossings with Afghanistan as trade between two nations remains halted, the local media in Kabul reported quoting an official of Afghanistan's chamber of commerce. Khan Jan Alokozay, a board member of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI), said Afghanistan previously used to conduct trade worth USD 200 million with Pa…

Afghan trade resilient in 2025 as Iran, Central Asia routes offset Pakistan closures

KABUL: Afghanistan’s trade remained resilient in 2025 despite repeated closures of key border crossings with Pakistan, commerce ministry data showed, as exporters and importers increasingly relied on alternative routes through Iran and Central Asia. The stability came even as tensions with Islamabad disrupted established transit corridors that have been landlocked Afghanistan’s main gateway to seaports for decades. Traders instead moved cargo th…

Afghanistan Trade Holds Steady Despite Pakistan Border Closures

Traders instead moved cargo through Iran’s Chabahar port and expanded their overland shipments via Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, cushioning the impact of delays and political uncertainty.  The post Afghanistan Trade Holds Steady Despite Pakistan Border Closures appeared first on StratNews Global.

Pakistan business body sets up committee to manage Afghanistan border trade

Pakistan’s top business body formed a new committee to manage border issues with Afghanistan, aiming to ease tensions and restore disrupted cross-border trade. Pakistan’s Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry has announced the formation of a new committee to manage border-related issues with Afghanistan, aiming to ease tensions and revive cross-border trade. The federation said the “Pakistan–Afghanistan Border Management Committee” wil…