Gas and oil businessmen on Sunday alleged “the oil mafia and its cronies” in the government had allowed the sale of low-quality petroleum products in the bazaar, a claim dismissed by the Norms and Standards Department. The Cabinet…
KABUL Chamber of Conference and Industry (ACCI) on Thursday said administrative corruption has been the main hurdle to investment in Afghanistan. ACCI deputy chief executive Khan Jan Alokozai told this at a day-long national conference of traders who had gathered…
KABUL): Afghan officials have complained to Pakistani business leaders regarding the frequent closure of the land route through northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to protests and insecurity, a report said on Monday. A 21-member team of Pakistani traders paid a three-day…
KABUL Banks Association (ABA) on Monday said the delay in signing the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States had caused capital flight from the country. Khalil Sediq, the association chairman, told a meeting in Kabul that the prevailing…
KABUL set for the fiscal year 2015 is unlikely to be achieved, thanks to increasing Iranian exports into Afghan market. The Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI) report said Afghan-Pak bilateral trade increased from $0.83 billion in 2007…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL): The afghani dipped against the US dollar during the outgoing week in Kabul, where gas prices soared and other daily-use commodities rates stayed stable, retailers said on Thursday. The Afghan currency depreciation against the greenback was linked to President…
KABUL’ and an exhibition of Afghan products are set to get under way simultaneously in New Delhi on Monday (today), organisers said. The event includes a high-level interactive ministerial segment, panel discussions on sector-specific issues covering mining, energy, agriculture and…
KABUL is willing to ink a tripartite accord with India and Iran on the Chabahar port, a diplomat said, hailing Kabul-Delhi relations as steady. His country was interested in signing the trilateral transit agreement to find a route for Kabul-Delhi…
KABUL): Prices of gas, sugar and Arabian gold fell but that of the Iranian variety gold increased during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Thursday. The rate of one gram of Arabian gold slipped by 50afs from…
KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industries said on Wednesday. ACCI Executive Head Mohammad Qurban Haqjo said private banks had $5 billion deposits and the central bank $6.5 billion, but entrepreneurs had been given only 10 percent of the money in…
KABUL): Prices of diesel and Iranian gold fell but that of Arabian variety gold soared during the outgoing week in Kabul, retailers said on Thursday. The rate of one litre of diesel decreased from 65afs to 64afs, said Abdul Hadi,…
KABUL (PAN): Prices of gold declined and of fuel jumped during the outgoing week in Kabul, where daily-use commodities stayed stable, retailers said on Thursday. One gram of Arabian gold declined from 2,200 afghanis to 2,150afs while the same quantity…
KABUL): Reversing an earlier dip, the afghani edged up against the US dollar in Kabul during the outgoing week, when gold prices fell and fuel rates jumped, dealers said on Thursday. Rates of other daily-use commodities stayed unchanged during the…
KABUL’s exports increased by 40 percent in the first quarter of 2013, compared to the corresponding period last year, a senior trader representative said. Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) chief executive Qurban Haqjo said exports during the same…
KABUL): Gold, fuel and gas prices increased while other daily-use commodity rates stayed unchanged during the outgoing week in Kabul, retailers said on Thursday. Abdul Basir, a jeweller in the Lycee-i-Maryam neighborhood, told Pajhwok Afghan News the price of one…
JALALALABAD (PAN, prices of essential items have once again shot up in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, residents complained on Thursday. Dwellers said they deserved a cut in prices during the month, whose philosophy includes compassion, piety, integrity…
KABUL): Minister of Commerce and Industries Anwarul Haq Ahadi said on Sunday the business licence-issuing process had been simplified, enabling traders to get permits within two days. With the reforms the ministry’s credibility would improve in the eyes of the…
GARDEZ (PAN): Beekeepers in southeastern Paktia province have been able to increase honey production and maintain high quality because of easy access to a variety of juicy flowers, but they lack access to foreign markets and face a lukewarm response…
KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) on Sunday asked the government to ban foreign insurance companies not licensed in Afghanistan and establish a joint public-private insurance company. ACCI Executive Director Mohammad Qurban Haqju told a day-long training workshop in…
HERAT CITY (PAN and Iran, on Monday asked the government to find alternative transit routes for their import and export businesses. The traders who held a gathering in Herat city, the capital of western Herat province that borders Iran, said…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): A newly-built underground market was inaugurated in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, officials said on Wednesday. Mayor Mohammad Yunus Muqim told the inauguration ceremony the market constructed over 500 square metres of land cost 49.7 million…
KABUL): Gold and diesel prices increased while rates of other daily-use items stayed unchanged during the outgoing week in Kabul, retailers said on Thursday. Abdul Basir, a jeweller in the Lycee-i-Maryam neighbourhood, told Pajhwok Afghan News the price of one…
KABUL and Turkey on Tuesday signed an agreement enabling businesspeople from the two sides to conduct trade fairs on each other’s soil. The accord, to be valid for a decade, was aimed at cementing trade cooperation between the two nations,…
