Afghanistan exports 1 mln square meters of carpets last year: local media

STORY: Afghanistan exports 1 mln square meters of carpets last year: local media DATELINE: May 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:14 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of carpet stores STORYLINE: Afghanistan has exported more than 1 million square meters of carpet over the past year, a local television channel reported Saturday. Quoting the Union of Carpet Producers and Exporters of the country, Tolonews reported that "the number of carpet weavers increased over the past one year and the country produced and exported more than 1 million square meters of carpets in the year of 1400 (in Persian calendar ended on March 20). "Production has increased by 20 percent," the media outlet quoted Mohammad Asef Yaghoubi, a member of the Carpet Producers and Exporters Union, as saying. However, following the U.S. military withdrawal, Washington has slapped sanctions on the new Afghan administration, freezing Afghanistan's central bank assets worth more than 9 billion U.S. dollars and thus pl