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Insecurity: Hairatan port sees 50pc drop in imports

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MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Import and export activities have reduced by 50 percent at Hairatan port due to recent conflict in northern Balkh province.

Hairatan is one of the country’s important commercial and transit ports which connects Afghanistan to Central Asia and China.

Naseer Ahmad Qasimi, director of chamber of commerce department of Blakh, in an exclusive interview told Pajhwok Afghan News the investment had reduced unprecedentedly due to insecurity in the country.

Qasimi said the port was functional but there was 50 percent decrease in transactions.

“Three months ago, an average of 250 wagons of commercial goods would . . .

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