Business & Economics

Oil prices drop about 17% after two-week ceasefire between Iran and the U.S.

With the outbreak of conflict involving the United States and Israel against Iran, the price of crude oil surged by approximately 68.5%, reaching $112.95 per

Joint committee bars rent hikes across Afghanistan

Afghanistan, Uzbekistan stress expansion of pharmaceutical cooperation

Woman-led dairy farm in Jawzjan creates jobs opportunities

Kabul, Islamabad stress availing trade opportunities

Pajhwok

15 Apr 2015 - 22:21

KABUL. This was said by visiting Pakistani commerce minister Khurram Dastagir Khan at . . .

Power shortage: Many Kandahar factories closed

Ahmad Bashir Naadem

15 Apr 2015 - 20:26

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Around 200 factories have been closed in southern Kandahar province owing to insufficient power supply, rendering more than 5000 people jobless .

Pak, Afghan officials for boosting bilateral trade volume

Zarghona Salehi

15 Apr 2015 - 18:36

KABUL. In the Pak-Afghan joint trade exhibition, several products were displayed manufactured . . .

Developing telecom sector govt’s priority: Ghani

Pajhwok

14 Apr 2015 - 21:13

KABUL was his government’s top priority and directed the Ministry of Finance to address . . .

2 Pakistani delegations due in Kabul today

Pajhwok reporter

13 Apr 2015 - 17:36

KABUL (Pajhwok): Two high-level Pakistani delegations are scheduled to arrive in Kabul today (Tuesday . . .

Torkham scale’s income increases after inquiry

Zeerak Fahim

12 Apr 2015 - 21:45

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Income from the Torkham scale has increased and corruption decreased after a delegation started monitoring the facility in eastern Nangarhar province on .

Afghan geologists find 1,400 mineral deposits

Shabnam Sherzad

12 Apr 2015 - 21:04

KABUL (Pajhwok): A senior Ministry of Mines and Petroleum official on Sunday said Afghan geologists . . .

Pakistan’s cement exports to Afghanistan fall

S. Mudassir Ali Shah

12 Apr 2015 - 11:17

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan fell to 2.06 metric tonnes over the past nine months of the . . .

Islamic banking gets special place in banking act

Javed Hamim Kakar

11 Apr 2015 - 18:21

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Kandahar cooperatives sell donated tractors

Ahmad Bashir Naadem

9 Apr 2015 - 19:38

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Half of the tractors distributed among local agricultural cooperatives in six districts of southern Kandahar province have been sold, with the .

Price of ghee, flour down, sugar up

Zarghona Salehi

9 Apr 2015 - 19:07

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of ghee and flour have dipped down while that of sugar . . .

Afghanistan honey production sector growing markedly

Javed Hamim Kakar

9 Apr 2015 - 13:36

BAMYAN (Pajhwok): After marking increase in high-quality honey production in central provinces of Afghanistan, producers . . .

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