The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of the Taliban group has announced the start of construction work on the “Qutaybah Ibn Saeed Baghlani” industrial park in Baghlan province.

The project began on Friday September 18, the 27th of Sunbula, with the presence of Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs. According to the office’s statement, the said industrial park will be built on an area of one thousand, six hundred and seventy-nine jeribs of land.

Abdul Ghani Baradar has said that the development of industrial and production activities in various sectors provides the ground for achieving economic self-sufficiency.

He added that the purpose of establishing industrial parks is to produce and process raw materials inside the country and export the manufactured products to other countries.

One day earlier, the Taliban had also begun construction work on another industrial park on an area of 10,000 jeribs of land in the “Dasht-e Abdan” area of Kunduz province; however, no details have been provided about the construction costs of these projects or their completion timeline.