TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): The Afghani Promotion Committee held its maiden meeting in central Uruzgan province on Saturday, giving traders and common people one month to shun using foreign currencies, particularly the Pakistani rupee, in domestic transactions.
The nine-member committee, formed under the leadership of the Uruzgan governor, comprises representatives of Da Afghanistan Bank, police headquarters, intelligence, the 4th brigade of the National Army, the vice and virtue department, municipality, revenue and the Department of Information and Culture.
Holding its first meeting, the committee asked shopkeepers and other people to transact only in the afghani and in this regard set a . . .
