Kabul-April 21, 2009- Afghan Wireless Communications Company (AWCC), headquartered in Kabul, is the largest private investor and the largest GSM mobile communications operator in Afghanistan. Afghan Wireless has always offered strong value propositions to its customers and has always focused on delivering the next level of excellence. Today AWCC is proud to announce the launch of the BlackBerry solution in Afghanistan. Afghan Wireless, the country’s leading mobile service provider has teamed up with Research In Motion? (RIM) ? to offer their state of the art BlackBerry’ Enterprise Service to Afghan wireless customers. The solution brings together the smartphones, software and services to allow easy wireless access to email, phone, calendar, web multimedia and a host of other lifestyle and business applications. Research In Motion?, widely known as RIM is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions in the worldwide mobile communication market. The strategic alliance with Afghan Wireless has opened new vistas for the professionals across varied fields from local businessmen to expatriates to experience the BlackBerry solutions. BlackBerry Enterprise Service is perfectly tailored for large organizations, small business and individuals who want to stay connected to colleagues, friends and family, as well as a growing range of business and personal information, while on the move. It is a service that will help increase overall productivity allowing timely decisions based on the most accurate information available. Acting as a centralized link between wireless devices, enterprise applications and wireless networks the BlackBerry solution will be a great help for the organizations that manage their own email server as its software tightly integrates with IBM, Lotus, Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise and uses advanced encryption and IT policy controls to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data. BlackBerry services are available in around 150 countries across the world with more than 21 million subscribers. The versatility of this niche system solution has set such a high benchmark that mixing pleasure with business is no longer a hard task to manage. The user will have numerous options to stay in touch with it’s business, no matter how demanding it is to be away from the office.

Dubai: Safi Airways, Afghanistan’s international carrier, has announced interline agreements with Lufthansa, United Airlines, Emirates and Qatar Airways. These agreements, effective from February, allow passengers travelling to and from Kabul to international destinations served by these partners to enjoy single-fare tickets and reduced lead time. The deal with United Airlines will be of special interest [...]

Canadian Ambassador William Crosbie and United States Ambassador for Economic and Development Affairs Anthony Wayne joined Minister of Finance H.E. Dr. Omar Zakhilwal for the opening of the Afghan National Customs Academy (ANCA). Established with the support of a number of international donors, the ANCA will assist the Afghanistan Customs Department to develop into a [...]

We have decided choose some the best afghan Commercials and publish them on AfghanBiz.com. Good commercials are the key for success in Business. Here is the fist commercial of Nadi Rice. Nadi Rice is an Afghan company headquartered in Hamburg Germany and one of the biggest supplier for afghan foods in Europe. The commercial is [...]

Washington, D.C., June 22, 2009—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a $65 million loan and $10 million in equity to MTN Afghanistan to support the expansion of the company’s mobile telephone network and meet the country’s growing demand for affordable mobile phone services. MTN Afghanistan is owned by MTN Dubai Ltd, [...]

Insight Consulting(IC) is an Afghan owned company which has positioned itself in Afghanistan as an end-to-end services and consulting company, specializing in fields such as private and public sector consulting, marketing and business development. We have successfully serviced both the private and public sectors in Afghanistan. IC is the first Afghan incorporated company blending Afghan [...]

BRAC Afghanistan Bank (BAB), is a Local Commercial Bank licensed by DAB (Da Afghanistan Bank) Central Bank of Afghanistan with institutional shareholding of BRAC, International Finance Cooperation (IFC), Shorecap International and Triodos Bank of Netherlands. BRAC Afghanistan Bank has been operating in Afghanistan since November 2006, enabling opportunity to a good number of businesses in [...]

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 [...]

Azizi Bank is one of the leading banks in the region and looking for a strong strategic and well-experienced individual for a start up Islamic banking. The responsibilities include starting Islamic Banking in the Bank, developing policies, procedures, products etc and managing Islamic Banking functions such as managing day-to-day operations of Islamic Banking venture, developing [...]

According to Tolo TV Namzad, is more than just a reality TV show, Namzad wants to give Afghan’s insight in to what it REALLY takes to be a political leader. Namzad follows six young adults as they compete to develop the policies, campaigns and support needed to be chosen as the nation’s top youth presidential [...]