AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoEnergy Infrastructure: Turkmenistan and UN officials met to push the long-stalled TAPI gas pipeline, focusing on hurdles inside Afghanistan and UNAMA’s role in supporting regional economic recovery. Trade & Exports: Afghanistan’s trade with Central Asia topped $1.27bn in the first five months of 2026, with exports around $74m led by dried and fresh fruits, talc stone, vegetables, medicinal plants and juices—though traders warn banking gaps and costly transit still block bigger export growth. Industry Growth: Herat’s pharmaceutical sector is expanding fast after a ban on Pakistani medicine imports, with eight factories producing thousands of medicine types and tens of thousands of serums for domestic markets. Jobs & Women-Led Production: In Kabul, a woman turned 1,000 afghanis into a bridal-shawl workshop employing 30 other women, showing how small home-based manufacturing can scale into local livelihoods. Regional Water Security: A Central Asia water conference in Dushanbe highlighted rising tension over upstream-downstream responsibilities, with water stress increasingly framed as a regional security risk.
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