The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) today agreed to set up Asia’s first major multi-country Islamic infrastructure fund.
The Islamic Infrastructure Fund, targeted at $500 million, will make Shari’ah-compliant equity investments in the 12 countries that are borrowing members of both development banks; currently Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz [...]

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.

More and more Dutch companies plan to increase their presence in post-war
Afghanistan through their operations in Dubai.
The Dutch economic mission to Dubai is organising a round-table conference
on January 22 to help network Dutch companies interested in doing business
in Afghanistan with their Afghani counterparts.
The conference will be attended by a delegation of 15 high-profile [...]

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $3 million grant to facilitate trade among member nations of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) as part of efforts to promote sustained economic progress across the region.
The Integrated Trade Facilitation Support for CAREC will receive an additional $600,000 from the governments of CAREC countries to [...]

Various varieties of carpets, recognised around the world as a symbol of Afghan culture, tradition and civilisation, will go on display at three major international trade shows this winter.
The US Agency and International Development (USAID) said Afghan traders would attend for the first time the South Asian Commodity Fair in Beijing, China, from December 28 [...]

India Thursday approved 180 million usd for up-gradation and construction of a crucial road from Zaranj to Delaram in Afghanistan (AfghanMania reported) .
‘The construction of the road would help Afghanistan to provide communications facility in a remote part of the country. The strategic road would not only provide India improved access into Afghanistan and Central [...]

Eight member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program will discuss ways to deepen interaction and integrate more effectively with world markets in a meeting in Tajikistan early next month.
The 6th Ministerial Conference of CAREC will be held in Dushanbe from November 2 -3, 2007.
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The Asia Foundation released findings from its most recent public opinion poll in Afghanistan, which covers the largest population sample ever surveyed at one time in all 34 of Afghanistan’s provinces. “Afghanistan in 2007: A Survey of the Afghan People” follows polls conducted by the Foundation in 2004 and 2006. Collectively, the three [...]

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who plans to return home on Thursday despite being asked by General Musharraf to delay it by a few days, says she envisages building “common markets” in South Asia from the “mountain peaks of Afghanistan to the Bay of Bengal” as part of a strategy to push forward the [...]