KABUL and smuggled to foreign countries annually, an official said on Sunday.
Abdul Bari Rahmani, secretary private sector development at the Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MoCI), expressed these views during the 4th joint meeting of government departments concerned and private sector representatives relating to excavation of precious stones.
Rahmani told the participants that the government was working on a plan through which excavation of precious stones would be managed. He lamented that currently 80 percent of the precious stones were being illegally excavated.
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