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Afghanistan wins GSMA Government Leadership Award
On Tuesday, in Barcelona, Spain, at the annual Government Mobile Forum, Afghanistan’s Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology, Amirzai Sangin, was given the mobile industry’s prestigious Government Leadership Award. The award was given to the Afghan government because of the “immense achievements made by the Afghan government in its commitment to the widespread expansion of [...]
February 17, 2011
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Development projects in Ghazni, Laghman, Jawzjan, and Helmand
Today, Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) reported that “development projects worth million of dollars will be launched in the southern province of Ghazni this year”.В The source of the report was the provincial governor of Ghazni, Musa Khan Akbarzada. “Saudi Arabia would construct a huge mosque in Ghazni City, the provincial capital, while the United Arab [...]
February 2, 2011
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Modern Rug Processing Factory Opened In Kabul
A modern rug processing factory was opened this week in Kabul, according to a report from Pajhwok Afghan News.В The factory will be able to process about 7,000 square meters of rug in a month, and it will employ about 100 workers. The factory was setup with funding ($200,000) from the United States Agency for [...]
January 13, 2011
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Demand for Afghan made cookers leads to boom in Samangan province
Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) reported today that recently there has been a major increase in demand for locally produced pressure cookers in Afghanistan’s northern province of Samangan. As a result, less foreign made products are imported and more jobs have been created for the locals. According to the PAN report, the number of factories have [...]
January 2, 2011
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Development projects completed in Samangan, projects started in Zabul, and 116 Afghans graduate in Kunar with skills needed to help develop their country
15 development projects were recently completed in the Aibak district of Afghanistan’s northern province of Samangan, according to a NATO news release today. The release stated that “the projects included the construction of two water tanks, the digging of four wells, gravelling of more than 125 miles of rural roads, brick-lining more than 1,900 meters [...]
October 19, 2010
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Video: Bridge dedication ceremony in Farzah District, Kabul province
October 1, 2010
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Road construction projects underway in Faryab, Kabul, Parwan and Bamiyan provinces
Earlier this week, Afghanistan’s Public Works Ministry announced that a 7.7 kilometer road will be built in Maimana, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab.В The project will cost $2.4 million and it is scheduled to take one year to complete.В The ministry said that the government has given the construction work to a [...]
September 30, 2010
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Revenue increases in Samangan and Herat
In Afghanistan’s northern province of Samangan, the head of the coal mining enterprises told Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) that revenues from the Dara-e-Sauf coalmine has tripled. 300 million afghanis has been made in the first six months of this year, compared to the 102 million afghanis during the same period in 2009. According to the [...]
September 28, 2010
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Afghanistan and China sign agreement on railway construction
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and the state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) signed an agreement today in Kabul in which the Chinese firm agreed to construct a railway corridor in Afghanistan. MCC will construct a railway corridor from Aynak Copper Mine in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Logar to eastern Torkham and northern Hairatan border towns. [...]
September 22, 2010
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New hospital to open in Khost; development projects announced in Farah and Kandahar
This fall, Khost City will have a new 100-bed hospital, according to a NATO news release. Work is nearly complete on the hospital, which will have an emergency room, male, female and children’s wards, mid-wife and maternity wards, x-ray and oncology departments, laboratories,В inpatient and outpatient care facilities, as well as office space for medial [...]
September 20, 2010
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2 vocational schools to be constructed in Logar
Afghan media reported recently that in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Afghanistan’s Logar province, two new vocational schools will be constructed – one related to agriculture and the other to mechanics.В Students will study for two years and will be given a certificate. The goal is to help train Afghans so that they can find jobs [...]
September 16, 2010
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Health center to be built in Herat; Farah hospital to get stable source of power
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health has announced that a new health center will be built in the Injil district of Afghanistan’s western province of Herat. A groundbreaking ceremony for the center was held last Sunday. The structure will be built by the the Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team.В Dr. Suraya Dalil, Afghanistan’s Acting Minister of Public [...]
September 8, 2010
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