News Ticker:

    Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui

    Keywords:

    Other Reports

    Security and Crime

    3rd phase of transition to cover 3 provinces

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionMay 13, 2012 - 15:16

    KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Sunday announced the third phase of security transition from foreigners to Afghan forces, a process that a senior official says will be challenging.

    ... (read more)


    Business & Economics

    Needy families in Kabul get food faid

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionMar 1, 2012 - 18:16

    KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) started distributing food items to 4,000 needy families in Kabul on Thursday.

    ... (read more)


    Reconstruction

    Afghans, Russians set to discuss key projects

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionFeb 29, 2012 - 19:12

    KABUL (PAN): Russia and Afghanistan are set to discuss seven mega projects that the former Soviet Union executed in the war-torn decades ago, an official said on Wednesday.

    ... (read more)


    Business & Economics

    New bank notes being printed: Dilawari

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionFeb 19, 2012 - 18:18

    KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan’s central bank is printing new currency notes worth one hundred billion afghanis ($203,087,000), a senior official announced on Sunday.

    ... (read more)


    Business & Economics

    Pakistan clears 164 food-laden Afghan vehicles

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionJan 28, 2012 - 15:37

    KABUL (PAN): The Pakistani government has allowed 164 of the 700 Afghan traders’ vehicles to enter the landlocked country, a businessman said on Saturday.

    ... (read more)


    Business & Economics

    Pakistan asked to compensate Afghan traders

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionDec 31, 2011 - 17:55

    KABUL (PAN): Afghan traders suffered a loss of $500 million (afghanis 24,620 million) over the past 18 months because of the Pakistan government's undue restrictions, an official of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) claimed on Saturday.

    ... (read more)


    Business & Economics

    Major oil deal signed with China

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionDec 28, 2011 - 17:32

    KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan and China on Wednesday signed their first-ever oil and gas deal that would earn the landlocked country $7 billion over the next two decades and a half, officials said.

    ... (read more)


    Business & Economics

    Iran temporarily relaxes Afghan vehicles' check: Alokozai

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionDec 19, 2011 - 18:49

    KABUL (PAN): The issue of strict checking of Afghanistan-bound trade goods carrying vehicles by Iranian authorities has temporarily been resolved, an official said on Monday.

    ... (read more)


    Business & Economics

    UAE investors plan to build dry port in Jalalabad

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionDec 18, 2011 - 19:35

    KABUL (PAN): Investors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) planned to construct a dry port in eastern Nangarhar province to facilitate Afghan traders, an official said on Sunday.

    ... (read more)


    Business & EconomicsNo details available

    Pakistan stops 500 Afghanistan-bound trade vehicles

    by Abdul Qadeer SiddiquionDec 17, 2011 - 18:23

    KABUL (PAN): Authorities in Pakistan have stopped 500 Afghanistan-bound vehicles loaded with transit trade goods on the suspicion of being supplied for NATO forces, an official said on Saturday.

    ... (read more)