Ayaz Gul VOA News January 14, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s newly opened southwestern Gwadar seaport has begun handling transit cargo headed to and from landlocked Afghanistan, marking a significant outcome of Islamabad’s multi-billion-dollar collaboration with China. Officials said the first ship full of Afghan cargo containers reached Gwadar on Tuesday. The containers will be loaded
Tolo News: Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) on Friday criticized an agreement enabling the presidential operations unit to import thousands of metric tons of wheat from India. According to Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA), the National Procurement Authority (NPA) has taken the contract for shipping thousands of metric tons of Indian wheat into the country from one
Michael Hughes: Tehran is looking forward to enhancing trade ties with Afghanistan in the coming months once a railway project connecting the two countries is finalized. However, although the United States has refrained from interfering in the development of this endeavor, Washington may take action to ensure anti-Iranian sanctions are effectively isolating Tehran as tensions continue
Ariana: This is the third time that the ministry of finance will transfer at least nine billion Afghanis to its treasury which is against the law, said officials in the lower house. “The treasury of the ministry of finance is empty, and that’s why employees haven’t received their salaries,” said Ramazan Bashardust, member of the lower
Press TV December 29, 2019 A senior Iranian official says a major railway connecting Iran and neighboring Afghanistan will be ready in March as construction of a key cross-border line is nearing completion. Abbas Khatibi, a deputy to Iran’s transportation minister, said on Saturday that the Iran would link up Afghanistan to its railway once construction
Tolo News: Officials in Kabul said recent US sanctions against Iran have affected Afghan investors’ trading through Iran’s Chabahar Port – which is otherwise considered a good alternative for Afghanistan-Pakistan trade routes. For example, business owners have not received payment for a talc shipment – comprised of 50 containers – which was exported to India eight
1TV: India and Iran have agreed to accelerate Chabahar port project, Indian foreign minister has said. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that the agreement was reached during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif who was visiting India. The Indian-backed Chabahar port complex on Iran’s coast along the Gulf of Oman is being developed as a transportation
Quartz: Since its inception in 2003, Roshan has grown to become the biggest telecoms operator in Afghanistan, and the superlatives don’t stop there. It is also the only B Corporation in Afghanistan. The B Corp designation means the company has adopted globally recognized business standards that encompass a lot of what it does—the community it’s striving
Insider: The US-led war in Afghanistan turned 18 in October, and those two decades of fighting and rebuilding appear to have yielded little progress. The counternarcotics effort there, for example, “has just been a total failure,” John F. Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, said at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, in November. Click
1TV: Despite 18 years of American and NATO military presence marked by funnelling of billions of dollars, Afghanistan’s economy remains highly dependent on foreign aid. The country’s public expenditure is $11 billion annually while revenues stand at $2.5 billion, according to officials cited by the New York Times. The difference of about 75 percent of expenses