India resumes imports of onions from Afghanistan

Bilateral trade between Afghanistan and India is slowly returning to normal balance after the regime change in Afghanistan. After dry fruit, shipments of onions have now also arrived in India. A few Afghan trucks carrying onions reached the integrated checkpoint (ICP) in Attari. The Taliban had previously closed the Afghan borders of Torkham and Chaman with Pakistan, the only two land routes used for trade activities between India and Afghanistan. The ICP Attari, which facilitates India's trade with Pakistan and Afghanistan, only receives goods from Afghanistan since New Delhi repealed Article 370 in August 2019. Indian traders import dry fruits, onions and apples from Afghanistan. Afghanistan has had a large onion ...