KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Despite a ban on the use of the Pakistani currency in southern Kandahar province, covert transactions in the rupee continue to take place.
About two months ago, the rupee locally known as ‘kaldar,’ was banned in Kandahar, with local residents and businessmen thronging moneychangers to convert rupees into afghanis.
The mass conversion led to appreciation of the afghani against the rupee and the US dollar.
Security officials also seriously pushed the ban but later they turned away their attention from the matter and people resumed deals in the rupee but in . . .
