{"id":10399,"date":"2022-06-05T03:24:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10399"},"modified":"2022-06-05T03:24:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T03:24:11","slug":"10399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/06\/10399\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing industry on the verge of collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Kabul-based publishers and printing press professional say the industry is on the verge of collapse owing to various challenges.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of printers in Kabul say that printing of books outside the country and the government&#8217;s negligence have stagnated their work.<\/p>\n<p>Shakir Safdari, a printer in Kabul, said he had at least eight employees a few months ago, but economic challenges and a lack of jobs in the printing market have led to the dismissal of all his employees, and his business is now in recession.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, officials at the Afghanistan Printing Association, which has about 200 printers from across the country, say that except one or two printers in the country, all are in a state of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>According to the union, in recent months a large number of printing houses in the country have ceased operations and thousands of people have lost their jobs in this sector.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Shakir Samimi, vice president of the Afghan Printing Union, said the reason for the stagnation was the economic challenges, the government&#8217;s negligence, the monopoly of the printing market, the printing of books abroad, especially in Iran and Pakistan, and the problems with raw material imports.<\/p>\n<p>He says that they have repeatedly referred to various government agencies to address these challenges, but no action has been taken to address their request.<\/p>\n<p>According to surveys conducted in the previous government, Kabul printing presses have the capacity to print about 550,000 books a day.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to get the view of the Ministry of Information and Culture on the plans of the caretaker government to save this industry, but we did not succeed.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Kabul-based publishers and printing press professional say the industry is on the verge of collapse owing to various challenges.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,229,8,4,6],"tags":[12,166,856,857],"class_list":["post-10399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-business","category-arts-culture","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-kabul","tag-printing","tag-publishing"],"views":334,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}