KABUL (PAN): A late 2012 survey shows some 80 percent of Afghan women have regular or occasional access to mobile phones, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said on Wednesday.
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal on Monday said he would discuss with Tajikistan leaders a railroad project and power transmission lines bringing electricity from the central Asian country to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
HERAT CITY (PAN): Afghan traders, concerned at their problems in Pakistan and Iran, on Monday asked the government to find alternative transit routes for their import and export businesses.
KABUL (PAN): Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) Governor Noorullah Dilawari on Saturday linked the afghani’s decline to unlawful cash transfers from the country and a global economic slowdown.
KABUL (PAN): Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani has said negotiations with Australia were underway on the next phase of helping Afghanistan develop its mining industry and tap into mineral and energy reserves.
HERAT CITY (PAN): The power utility on Thursday said it had installed two new electricity transformers that could provide 50 megawatts of electricity each to residents of western Herat province.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology on Wednesday announced more than id=mce_marker.8 billion had been invested in the telecommunication sector over the past 12 years.
KABUL (PAN): The German Commerce Bank has asked Afghan financial institutions to establish links with a US bank banks for uninterrupted dollar transfers, a senior official said on Tuesday.
