Khaleej Times: Afghanistan launched on Monday 43 tenders for natural resource projects as part of a global initiative to attract investment into its mineral sector that has assets estimated to be worth $1 trillion. Afghan Minister of Mines and Petroleum Nargis Nehan said 14 tenders would be opened for large-scale projects to international companies through a competitive bidding process and the remaining small-scale projects would be awarded to local companies. Declaring that her country’s mining sector is ‘open for business,’ Nehan said at the Afghanistan Mining Investment Forum in Dubai that the projects have generated interest from the US, European, and Gulf companies. Click here to read more (external link).

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They are distorting and politicizing the basic facts on natural reserves
of
Afghanistan- I have a lot of knowledge about the topic- I am (%100 sure) you can not put a price tug on largely unexplored natural reserves of gems and minerals of Afghanistan, period.
Afghanistan,
(a rather huge country, around
250000 square miles which is almost the size of Texas and with population
of
around 40 millions),
is being unbelievably casually managed like
a
little
monopolized
private business.
So, extremely complex; but, yet so simplified by foreign meddling
( thugs and thug-mars).
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