Nearly three months after the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) announced a ban on the use, purchase and sale of “Cacao King”, a cocoa-based weight-gain product, it is still being sold in some shops in the capital Kabul.
The prices of Kazakh flour and gold declined, but the rates of other items stayed stable during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Saturday.
The Labour and Social Affairs Department of Nangarhar says 6,000 people are working in brick kilns, half of them children and teenagers in the Surkh Rod district of the eastern province.
The Economic Commission has approved a draft procedure to promote the use of domestic agricultural and livestock products, as well as the adoption of Ghori Cement in construction projects across the country.
The Kabul Municipality has launched the distribution of coal at a subsidised rate of 6,500 afghanis per ton, about 50 percent less than the current market price of 12,500 afs.
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi and his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov have discussed various issues, including the acceleration of work on the TAPI gas pipeline project in Afghanistan, and provision of transit and visa facilities.
The Khayber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has imposed two percent sales tax on commercial goods imported by Afghan businessmen in violation to the Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Agreement (APTA), according to some businessmen in eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday.
Leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has decreed Angor Adda, a dry port in southeastern Paktia province, as transit point for trade with Pakistan, an official said on Sunday.
