KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): With insecurity scaring away investors, government efforts have failed so far to estimate mineral deposits or prevent their illegal extraction in southern Kandahar province, officials admit.
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): The transport management department of northern Kunduz says its revenue has doubled in 2012, compared with the previous year’s income.
KABUL (PAN): Government has to pay Breshna Shirkat -- the Afghan power utility -- four billion afghanis (about $77 million) in electricity bills, the company said on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): The prices of sugar and diesel declined while the rates of other daily-use items stayed unchanged during the outgoing week in Kabul, retailers said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (PAN): Registering a double-digit growth rate of 11 percent in 2012, Afghanistan has emerged as the fastest-growing economy in South Asia, the World bank said on Tuesday, cautioning afte
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): A delegation is leaving for Tashkent in the nearest future to take up with the Uzbek authorities the issue of a stranded train loaded with dried fruit belonging to Afghan traders at the Hairatan port, officials in northern Balkh province said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministries of Defence and Finance, welcoming recent US commitments to Afghanistan, on Tuesday expressed doubts about their implementation.
KABUL (PAN): Following the prediction of a depleted ground water level in Kabul due to the climate change in 2017, the government has launched efforts to deal with the possible crisis, a senior official said on Monday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Several government departments in eastern Nangarhar province owe more than 800 million afghanis ($15 million) to the Afghanistan Bareshna Shirkat in unpaid electricity bills, an official said on Monday.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Uzbekistan has obstructed the export of 2,000 tonnes of dry fruit from Afghanistan to Russia through the Hairatan port, an official said on Monday.
