How border closures, a Taliban directive, and new transit corridors are redrawing Afghanistan's economic map Tariq Saeedi For decades, Pakistan was Afghanistan's principal commercial gateway to the outside world. Geography made the relationship almost unavoidable: Afghanistan is landlocked, and Pakistan offered the shortest overland route to the Arabian Sea and the ports … [Read more...]
TIF 2025: Turkmenistan Strengthens Its Position in the Global Market — Foreign Trade Turnover Exceeds $19.7 Billion in 2024
Avaza, 19 September 2025 — At the sixth session of the Turkmenistan Investment Forum (TIF 2025), held under the theme “Strengthening Institutional Foundations of Trade: Access into New Trade Markets,” Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan, Bekmurat Allakbayev, presented key indicators of the country’s foreign economic activity. According to the Ministry of … [Read more...]
TIF 2024: Turkmenistan’s foreign trade turnover in the first half of 2024 exceeded US $ 9 billion
Chairman of the Board of the State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan Rakhimberdy Jepbarov shared the positive economic indicators of the country at the TIF 2024 Investment Forum in Ashgabat. According to Jepbarov, Turkmenistan's foreign trade turnover in the first half of 2024 exceeded US $ 9 billion, demonstrating a trade surplus of US $ 2.973 billion. This … [Read more...]