ISLAMABAD – The Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) has recorded a surge of 9 percent during the first two months of the ongoing fiscal year, while the reverse transit increased by huge 118 percent in August on month-on-month basis. Pakistan’s handling of Afghanistan’s transit trade during July-August of FY 2025-26 showed an overall positive trend and recorded an increase of 9 percent, taking the transit volume to $209 million compared to $191 million during the same period last year, official source told The Nation here Wednesday.
Forward transit, which refers to goods imported into Afghanistan through Pakistan, grew by 10 percent, from $187 million in July-August FY2024-25 to $205 million during the months of the ongoing fiscal, while reverse transit, which includes goods exported from Afghanistan, declined by 3 percent, from $3.9 million during July-August of FY2024-25 to $3.8 million during the same period of the ongoing fiscal year. ATT has recorded 13 percent increase on year-on-year basis in August FY 2025-26 as compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year, while on month-on-month basis it has increased by 8 percent in August FY2025-26 as compared to the month of July of the ongoing fiscal year. In August 2025, Afghanistan Transit Trade showed growth marking a total transit increase by 13 percent on year-on-year basis, rising from $94.5 million in August 2024 to $107.3 million in August 2025. Forward transit grew by 15 percent from $92 million to $106 million, while reverse transit declined by 51 percent from $2.53 million in August 2024 to $1.3 million during the same period of the ongoing fiscal year.
On month-on-month, transit trade surged by 8 percent, up from $100.4 million in July 2025 to $108.6 million in August 2025, mainly due to an 118 percent rise in reverse transit, whereas forward transit enhanced by 7 percent. After a decline of 64.80 percent and 59.55 percent in Afghan Transit Trade, during the fiscal years of FY2024-25 and FY2023-24, respectively, in July 2025, it has made tremendous come back of 78 percent increase on MoM basis in July FY2025-26, official source told The Nation here. During the previous two fiscal years, i.e FY2023-24 and FY2024-25, Afghan Transit Trade had showed huge decline mainly due to Pakistan’s anti-smuggling efforts and import restrictions. In the fiscal year 2024-25, the Afghan Transit Trade had recorded a decline of 64.80 percent or $1.86 billion and dropped to merely around $1.01 billion from $ 2.87 billion during the FY2023-24. In the fiscal year 2023-24 also, the Afghan Transit Trade had recorded a huge decrease of 59 percent, from $7.095 billion in 2022-23 to $2.887 billion during 2023-24.
