Drought causes saffron harvest drop by 50pc this year
KABUL: Saffron has given a lower harvest of up 50 percent, as drought affected the country. Saffron is largely grown in the country’s western Herat...
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Economic
Uzbekistan state firm makes debt market debut
Uzbekistan’s national oil and gas company has successfully is-sued a Eurobond in London. It marks the first foray onto inter-national debt markets by a state-owned...
Uzbekistan sends team to repair Balkh airport
Esmatullah Ergashev, special representative of Uzbekistan’s president, in a meeting with local officials in the northern Afghan province of Balkh on Sunday said his country...
Passport issuance started in seven more provinces
KABUL: Officials of the Passport Directorate said the other day that they have started the issuance of passports in Balkh, Paktia, Kandahar, Kunduz, Herat, Nangarhar,...
Taliban warns of ban the PIA if PAI didn’t justify the Ticket price.
Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Administration in a statement said that Pakistan’s PIA and Afghanistan’s Kam Air will be banned to conduct flights from Kabul to Islamabad...
G20 nations to help preserve financial stability in Afghanistan
The G20 nations on Tuesday vowed to cooperate with international organizations to maintain financial stability in Afghanistan, the Italian government said. “The functioning of the...
Afghanistan’s electricity body to sell estates to pay off debt: Report
Amid mounting debt crisis, Afghanistan’s electricity body is set to sell the estates of its debtors in a bid to pay nearly USD 62 million...
Taliban say school graduates of 2000-2020 not usable: Report
The Taliban have said that those who have graduated from high schools during the past twenty years in Afghanistan are of no use, reported local...
Displaced Afghan woman sells infant to pay for treatment of daughter
Kabul: An Afghan woman who got displaced from the Baghlan province to Kabul sold her infant due to poverty. She sold her one and half...