Afghanistan’s Taliban-led Interim Government has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin and develop an oil reserve in the country’s northern Sar-e Pul province.

According to state-run Bakhtar News Agency, the contract was signed by acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum Sheikh Shahabuddin Delawar and an official of Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co in a ceremony in Kabul.

Source: Radio Pakistan