KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) on Sunday said the number of stranded trucks had doubled and prices of food items and construction material had soared in main cities. Last week, ACCI decided against supplying goods to major cities…
KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) chief on Sunday warned the trader body would resort to countrywide protests until a municipal tax charged at the entry points to cities, including Kabul, is abolished. Last month, the…
KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) chief on Sunday warned the trader body would resort to countrywide protests until a municipal tax charged at the entry points to cities, including Kabul, is abolished. Last month, the Cabinet said businessmen…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Over 72 tonnes of substandard flour imported from Iran was recovered and buried in western Heart province on Tuesday, an official said. “The flour was recovered in Isalm Qala and buried in the presence of various government…
KABUL (PAN): A special tribunal on Tuesday handed down prison sentences to Kabul Bank’s former executives and ordered them to return hundreds of millions of dollars they had stolen. Ex-chairman of Kabul bank Sher Khan Farnoud and former chief executive…
KABUL): Hundreds of trucks laden with commercial goods have been stopped outside Kabul in protest against the revival of municipal taxes, asking the government to reverse its decision, an official said on Saturday. The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries…
WASHINGTON (PAN Trade Organization (WTO), Commerce Minister Dr. Anwarul Haq Ahady on Thursday his country could be integrated with the global economy this year. “The WTO accession process has gone well. We were earlier thinking we would be able to…
KABUL said on Monday. Scheduled to be held at the Dubai World Trade Centre, the Gulfood Exhibition is the Middle East’s biggest annual food and hospitality show, bringing together thousands of buyers, suppliers, and food enthusiasts. With USAID support, 30…
WASHINGTON (PAN and would continue to do so after 2014 when foreign troops are scheduled to withdraw from the country and hand over security to Afghan forces. Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told a Washington audience the two countries…
KABUL kicked off in the Indian capital on Thursday, largely to woo foreign investors to explore trade opportunities in the Central Asian nation. Delegates from some 40 countries are expected to participate in the meeting, where investors would be briefed…
KABUL): Prices of gold, gas and petrol declined during the outgoing week in Kabul, where slight changes were seen in the rates of other essential commodities, retailers said on Thursday. Abdul Baseer, a jeweller in the upscale Lecce-i-Maryam neighbourhood, told…
KABUL): Traders on Tuesday asked the government to pay a special attention to the country’s once lucrative carpet industry, experiencing a 75 percent cut in production and exports over the past six years. Addressing a news conference in Kabul, the…
KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) said on Wednesday. The clearance process for 700 Afghanistan-bound containers -- carrying meat, chickens, eggs and other perishable commodities – began this morning, Khan Jan Alakozai told Pajhwok Afghan News. Pakistani military officials…
KABUL should seek alternative transit routes. The Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APPTA) was signed in Kabul on Oct. 28, 2010 between Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim and his Afghan counterpart Dr. Anwarul Haq Ahadi. However, the agreement is yet to…
ISLAMABAD/JALALABAD (PAN): Afghan vegetable importers are forced into paying bribes by Pakistani guards and customs officials at the Torkham border crossing, a traders' representative said on Sunday. Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries Director for the eastern zone, Eng. Qasim…
KABUL): The High Oversight Office and Anti-Corruption (HOOA) said on Sunday the Ariana Afghan Airlines would collapse if government institutions did not repay its loans. Addressing Sunday's session of the Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of Parliament, the HOOA director…
KHOST CITY (PAN): A fire that broke out in a marketplace in southeastern Khost province destroyed at least 350 shops south of the provincial capital, officials said on Friday. The blaze that erupted in a nearby wood stall in the…
KABUL has started allowing 20 Afghan traders’ containers laden with commercial goods to enter the landlocked country on a daily basis, the finance ministry said. The clearance process of the 700 Afghanistan-bound containers carrying meat, chicken and eggs began on…
JALALABAD (PAN): Nangarhar governor Gul Agha Sherzai on Thursday said he has ordered a crackdown on illegal armed groups and individuals in the eastern province. In an exclusive interview, Sherzai said he would not tolerate any threat to people and…
JALALABAD (PAN Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) deputy head on Monday complained traders were facing multiple problems due to kidnappings and the presence of illegal armed groups in eastern Nangarhar province. Khan Jan Alokozay told a press conference in…
KABUL): The Pakistani government has allowed 164 of the 700 Afghan traders’ vehicles to enter the landlocked country, a businessman said on Saturday. “We are trying to get released the rest of Afghanistan,” the Ministry of Finance spokesman Wahidullah Ghazikhel…
KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) on Tuesday urged President Hamid Karzai to pay special attention to promoting domestic products. An ACCI delegation also asked Karzai to promote domestic industries and exports of Afghan carpets to the global market,…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Six sites have been identified so far across the country for the installation of systems to produce wind power, an official said on Monday. The sites were identified in Balkh, Herat, Kabul-funded project aimed at collecting information…
JALALABAD (PAN): Unauthorised vehicle-weighing machines have been installed at various places in Laghman and Nangarhar provinces, a traders' representative alleged on Sunday. The machines had been installed in Torkham and Daka areas of Nangarhar and Khairokhel area of Laghman, an…
