Following the announcement of the completion of its high capacity digital Microwave Ring around the country two week ago, today announced another great achievement for the benefit of the Afghan People — Per Second Billing PLUS for its over 1.6 million Subscribers.
In a press briefing at its’ headquarters, Afghan Wireless Managing Director, Mr. Amin Ramin, [...]
The Alternative Agricultural Livelihoods Programme, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by FAO and MAIL, started in July 2005 and closes at the end of December 2007.
AALP’s role has been to ensure that MAIL is able to play a leadership role in the mainstreaming of counter narcotics issues into Afghanistan’s [...]
A Chinese mining company has won a tender to develop one of the world’s largest copper mines in Afghanistan.
The state-owned China Metallurgical Group says it will invest nearly $3bn in the mine at Aynak in the province of Logar, south of Kabul.
Officials say it will be the largest foreign investment in Afghan history and will [...]
An agreement was signed in Kabul on November 16 to implement a US$500 million electricity connection between Central Asia and South Asia. In its first stage, the project would transfer around 1300 Megawatts of electricity from Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Central Asia has abundant hydropower resources and seasonal energy surpluses that [...]
National and international media are invited to participate in ‘The Second Afghan Saffron Conference’ in Herat. The conference is organized by DACAAR and ICARDA with generous funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Danish International Development Assistance (DANIDA). Furthermore, this event has the special support of the Afghanistan Ministry for Agriculture, [...]
The US Agency for International Development’s Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED) project is partnering with the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) to facilitate the participation of 40 Afghan companies at the upcoming India International Trade Fair (IITF). The IITF 2007 will be held in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India from November 14-27.
The [...]
Kabul-based private airline, Safi Airways, launched its Kabul-Sharjah service on Friday. The service will be available daily, except Saturday.
The airline will be also launching a daily flight, except on Saturdays, between Kabul and Dubai from November 18.
Safi Airways has a fleet of two B767-200ER aircraft with 18 Business Class and 196 Economy seats.
It plans to [...]
THE SWEDISH COMMITTEE FOR AFGHANISTAN, SCA, is conducting a two day international conference on Afghanistan 8 – 9 November 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden. Afghanistan is a country devastated by 30 years of conflict, Soviet occupation; civil war, Taliban regime and US war on terror have all affected the lives of ordinary Afghans. Today the violence [...]