Afghanistan’s 3rd quarter Exports in 2007 increased by 19.6% compared to 2006 according to figures from Central Statistics Office. In the third quarter of 2007 Afghanistan’s exports reached $107 million vs. $87 million for same period in 2006.

Private investment is expected to rise in 2008 despite a fall last year. This was announced by Dr. Zakhilwal, the President of Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) in a press conference on January 28, 2008 at AISA Headquarter. The conference, which was attended by a large group of Kabul-based media members, highlighted AISA’s achievements, activities, [...]

The European Union invites young Afghan leaders to apply for the European Union Visitors Programme - EUVP a unique opportunity to experience Europe from within, gaining a first-hand appreciation of the European Union’s institutions, its achievements, goals and prospects, increasing mutual understanding between professionals from non-EU countries and their EU counterparts. The European Union Visitors [...]

The ICT Department of MCIT has received a credit from the Telecommunication Development Fund (TDF) and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit to payments under the contract for Supply of Technical Books to the ICT Department of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) at [...]

Ministry of Communications and IT intends to extend the current CDMA network in Provinces said Eng. Barialay Hassam Deputy Minister Technical in a signing ceremony and press conference made for this purpose on Tuesday February 26, 2008 in the Conference room of Ministry of Communications and IT.
Deputy Minister Barialay Hassam said that the Ministry [...]

Ariana Afghan Airlines will resume its flights from Kabul to Frankfurt, the only destination for Ariana in Europe again.
On February 15th, 2008, Ariana Afghan Airlines received entry permission to Germany. Ariana Afghan will start its operation to Frankfurt on February 25th, 2008. The flight will be operated by Airbus A321 via Istanbul, Turkey. [...]

With the completion of a number of power supply projects including three solar power and cable repairing projects, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development enlightened the houses of 1110 villager in provinces of Maidan Wardak, Nangarhar and Kabul.
The solar power projects include installation of 334 solar panels in 9 villages of Deh-mirdad district in [...]

LEMAR takes its name from the Pashto word for sun. Launched in 2006, its mandate is to provide coverage of Pashto, Dari, Urdu and English news. Each bulletin spans local, international, finance, sports and weather news.
Current affairs programming on LEMAR includes Kaglechoona, a hard hitting, investigative style program which delves into criminal cases around the [...]

1. This invitation for bids follows the General Procurement Notice for this project that appeared in Development Business; issue Number: 612 of August 23, 2003.
2. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has received a credit from the International Development Association (IDA) and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit to payments under [...]

State owned Pashtany Bank, ( formerly Pashtany Tejarati Bank ) has made it biggest Profit ever in the last nine months. Pashtany Bank ist one of the oldest banks in Afghanistan. Pashtany Bank is preparing for privation’s. With this huge profit, the bank would be very attractive for investors. Mr.Hayatullah Dayani [...]