As Pajhwak News reports, the first-ever private insurance “Afghan Insurance Company,” starts operation in Kabul with a two million dollars investment.
Asad Sakhi Farhad, president of the Afghan Insurance Company, confirmed, taht the firm had paid two million US dollars to the Finance Ministry to obtain a licence.
In case of death or damage, the company [...]

Originally capable of accommodating less than half a million inhabitants, Kabul Metropolitan Area now supports a population of over four million in a rapidly expanding economy. Together with improving economic opportunities, this sharp increase in population density brings with it the associated problems of inadequate infrastructure, increasing pollution, and growing unemployment. Afghans are determined to [...]

The activities of Quest Net Irs Union in Afghanistan have been banned by the government of Afghanistan said Eng. A. Sangin Minister of Communications and IT and Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industries in a press conference made for this purpose on Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008 in the conference room of the Ministry of Communications [...]

British operator Vodafone announced Monday at the industry’s annual trade show in Barcelona that it would launch a money transfer service in Afghanistan after the successful introduction of a similar initiative in Kenya. Roshan Telecoms would be the partner of Vodafone in Afghanistan. Roshan is the larges mobile operator in Afghanistan and the partnership with [...]

Pamir Airways was inaugurated in May 1995 and is the first private airline in the history of Afghanistan to receive the AOC from the Afghanistan Ministry of Civil Aviation. The company is named after the Pamirs, a mountainous region of central Asia
The company’s fleet started with one Boeing 707-320 and two AN-12 aircrafts. Since, Pamir [...]

Afghan Wireless launched prepaid roaming to India. This adds Prepaid roaming countries to 5 including, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, UAE, Belgium and India.
All Afghan Wireless Prepaid subscribers can roam to India (initially to New Delhi) with their Afghan Wireless Prepaid Connection. All they need to do is to load enough credit before they leave the country.

With wide and popular support from the Afghanistan Parliament upon nomination by President Karzai, Mr. Abdul Qadeer Fitrat has recently been named the new Governor of the Da Afghanistan Bank (“DAB”) or Central Bank of Afghanistan. Mr. Fitrat joins DAB with a wide experience in the banking and financial services sector having previously served as [...]

The Ministry of Communications and IT, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has received funds from Ministry of Finance for the establishment of National Data Centre in Kabul, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this fund to payments under the contract for the purchase and installation of equipment for the national data centre.
The [...]

MCIT now invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for the Oracle & Linux Training for Afghanistan National Data Center. The overall objective of this training is to build the capacity and upgrade the technical skills of ANDC staff in the areas of RDBMS (Oracle) administration and PLATFORM (Linux) Administration Industry base training, which is required [...]

The National Solidarity Programme (NSP), a community-led reconstruction and rural infrastructure initiative, has made significant achievements in empowering communities, improving community relations, and increasing public faith in the system of government, according to a World Bank project assessment report released today.
According to the report – Implementation Completion and Results Report of the National [...]