A commercial market is being constructed at a cost of 564 million afghanis in Pul-i-Khumari, the capital of northern Baghlan province. Pul-i-Khumari mayor Abdul Latif Mazulm, who inaugurated construction work on the market, said illegally constructed buildings in…
A newly-built commercial market worth 44.3 million afghanis has provided work opportunity for 145 people in the Aqcha district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Thursday. Hamidullah Hamid, financial and administrative director of Aqcha district, told…
A number of Karakul cap sellers in Kabul complain about the decrease in production and sale of the eye-catching headwear, urging the government to support the business. Karakul hat industry is one of the oldest handicrafts in the…
Almond orchards in central Daikundi province produced 33,000 metric tons of the dried fruit last solar year, local officials said. Daikundi agriculture officials linked the decrease in almond yield to drought. Bashir Ahmad Rafi, Daikundi agriculture director, told…
A fire that swept through a supermarket in Qabzadan area of Rakha district in central Panjshir province caused 800,000 afghanis in damage, local officials said Tuesday. Qari Abdul Jalal Faisal, Rakha district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
Pakistan exports 90 percent of Afghanistan’s carpets to other countries under its own trademark, officials say. Previously, they recall, 60 percent of Afghanistan’s carpets were exported to Pakistan and 40 percent to other countries. The Afghanistan Carpet Production…
Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) on Thursday said that the Sarai-Shahzada money market in Kabul would reopened on Saturday, September 4. A statement from the central bank said members of its leadership board had held talks with moneychangers on…
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan says border markets are being set up to revive business activities in tribal districts. The creation of the markets would boost economic and trade activities besides providing livelihood opportunities, the chief…
A business centre exclusively for women has been put into service after its completion in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Monday. Women Affairs Director for Kandahar Ruqaya Achakzai told Pajhwok Afghan News the facility’s construction…
Businesswomen in southeastern Paktia province complain even preliminary works to construct a separate market for them could not be initiated one year after President Ghani’s visit. They ask the authorities concerned to start work on the promised market…
The prices of dried fruits, including almond, pistachio and walnut, have soared prior to Eidul Adha in Kabul, but shopkeepers say the market tends to remain bearish this year. Afghans wear new clothes, visit friends and relatives and…
