KABUL CITY (PAN): The Afghan spy service said on Sunday that two people suspected of having links to the Taliban were detained in the Wardoj district of northeastern Badakhshan province.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Mines said eight international companies have been shortlisted to invest in six blocks out of the 12 blocks in the development and production of oil and gas in the Afghan-Tajik Basin in the northeast of Afghanistan.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan’s central bank governor on Thursday announced that all transactions would be done in the local currency, asking private-sector financial institutions to refrain from overseas investments.
KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan National Front (ANF) on Wednesday said though the participation of high government officials’ kin in the bidding process was unlawful, yet most mining contracts were awarded to relatives of President Hamid Karzai and his aides.
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Hajj has planned to spend $1.7 million (87.4 afs) to construct 34 mosques in each province of the country by end of this year, an official said on Wednesday.
KABUL (PAN): The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has seized a helicopter owned by a Tajikistan firm that had been operating in Afghanistan illegally, officials said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): A United Arab Emirates (UAE) company would invest $10 million to establish laboratories at Afghan dry ports to control the quality of petroleum products, an official said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): A new survey released on Wednesday said there has been a 33 percent decrease in mortality rate among infants as compared to 2007’s deaths in Afghanistan.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan would sign a long-term strategic cooperation agreement with Norway in September this year to bolster ties with the Nordic nation.
