Transit Trade

They were supplanted by a series of alterations to the export and transit-trade activities hinged on the burgeoning capital city. 27 Abd al-Rahman's commercial policies and practices regarding the movement of fruit and other goods ultimately restricted Afghanistan's entry into a maturing global economy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In order to encourage the kuchis to use the Khaibar route Abd al-Rahman ordered security deposits to be collected from them, preferably at Dakka, the last Durrani state transit-trade post in the Khaibar corridor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The British opinion about Abd al-Rahman's transit-trade policies and practices reflected some aspects of the reforms Burnes and Trevor made to the Kabul customs house and fiscal registers during the first colonial occupation of Kabul. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1885 he communicated with certain Peshawri merchants through their agents in Kabul about the transit-trade situation. 39 Abd al-Rahman expressed entitlement to a share of the profits merchants transferred back to the subcontinent, despite the facts that the tea never entered his territory and the money received for the tea moved from Moscow to Bombay by telegraph without traversing his realm! ❋ Unknown (2008)