Khaama Press: Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce has decided to send a high level delegation comprising officials and businessmen to Afghanistan to address issues that are responsible for Pakistan losing its traditional flour export market in Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News / December 29, 2015 Fed up with the worsening security and dwindling economic opportunities in their country, Afghans are fleeing to Europe in numbers not seen even under the repressive Taliban regime. About 200,000 Afghan asylum-seekers were registered in 27 European member states from January to December of 2015, according to the International
1TV: Afghan government on Saturday announced an additional six billion Afghanis in state revenue this year compared with how much it was expected to be. In the Persian year of 1394, more than 120 billion Afghanis have been collected, a six percent increase than what was set as target by International Monetary Fund, according to Finance Ministry.
Tolo News: Since assuming office, President Ashraf Ghani has failed to deliver on the pledges he made to restore the economy and create jobs, economists said Saturday, noting that the economic recession and high unemployment statistics continue to plague the country. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: Government has issued a final announcement for privatizing 100% shares of New Kabul Bank (NKB) saying it is in “the final stages”. Click here to read more (external link).
ByIWPR Afghanistan: Afghanistan needs major economic reforms to halt the depreciation of its national currency, according to speakers at recent IWPR debates. The afghani’s value has fallen by some 15 per cent against the dollar over the past year. Experts told events held in Kunar, Kandahar and Nangarhar provinces that the economy was far too
Khaama Press: The Afghan government has identified 227 new defaulters of Kabul Bank five years after the collapse of the bank which was once one of the biggest private banks of the country. Officials in the Afghan Attorney General Office (AGO) said Tuesday that the government will start collecting the outstanding debts as a new list of
Trend News Agency: Afghanistan can benefit from the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars regional transport hub in the future, Azerbaijani political analyst, professor of Western University Fikret Sadikhov told Trend. The political analyst believes that Afghanistan can use the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway for transporting its cargo. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: An Afghan investor Janbaz Sultani said on Sunday his plans to build a recycling factory in Kabul are being scuppered as Kabul Municipality is not supporting him in his endeavors. He said he hopes to build the factory to produce energy, fertilizer and fuel from the waste that is collected from the city. Sultani said in
Yamin Zakaria: Call it political analysis or conspiracy theory, commercial interests often underpins foreign policy. Accordingly, many alleged that the US supported the Taliban regime through its ally Pakistan because it wanted to build a Gas pipeline in the 1990s along with the other strategic interests. The pipeline would run from the Central Asian countries through