News Afghanistan Banks: Afghanistan: Afghan central bank numbers crunched by Indian accountant
We all know that Iraq is bad but to hear many experts tell it, Afghanistan is the genuine headache of the age, military and economic. With the struggling economy as much a battleground for hearts and ...
News Afghanistan Banks: Kabul Bank: Fears of further banking collapses shake Afghanistan
A top banker in Afghanistan has voiced his fears that more local lenders are running the type of pyramid schemes that toppled Kabul Bank and that threaten to bring the entire Afghan economy to a ...
News Afghanistan Banks: Afghani strengthens nearly 10% against US dollar amid banking sector reforms
The bank said it has expanded oversight of financial institutions and private lenders, improving transparency and promoting more consistent standards across the sector.
News Afghanistan Banks: Kazakhstan-Afghanistan business forum to unlock trade-economic opportunities
According to a statement from the Kazakh Foreign, around 150 businessmen from Afghanistan will attend from several economic sectors, including second-level banks. While on the Kazakh side, the ...
News Afghanistan Banks: Kazakh-Afghan Business Forum Will Not Affect Kazakhstan's Position On Taliban, Official Says
Deputy Foreign Minister Qanat Tumysh, told reporters on July 31 that the Kazakh-Afghan business forum scheduled to be held in Astana on August 3-5 will not affect Kazakhstan's official stance on the Taliban.
News Afghanistan Banks: Terrorism in Pakistan: A conflict analysis
There has been a spike in violent terrorist activities in Pakistan ever since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. If we look for the root causes of these extremist activities we can trace them back to the Sovie ...
News Afghanistan Banks: Afghanistan Cannot Develop Without Education: Stanikzai
The political deputy of the foreign ministry, Sher Mohammad Abad Stanekzai, said that Afghanistan cannot develop without education.
News Afghanistan Banks: Exclusive: Audit fails to win U.S. backing for release of Afghan central-bank funds
A U.S.-funded audit of Afghanistan's Taliban-run central bank has failed to win Washington's backing for a return of bank assets from a $3.5 billion Swiss-based trust fund, said two U.S. officials and a former U.S. official, a move that would help ease the country's financial crisis.
News Afghanistan Banks: Transition: A trans film-maker living alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan after the fall captures a nation and a person in flux
Australian Jordan Bryon was determined to stay on and continue making films despite the grave danger he was placing himself in ...
News Afghanistan Banks: The impossible truth about Afghanistan
To many in the West, an Afghanistan that flourishes under the Taliban, or even one that survives, cannot possibly be true. Under their rule, the country can only be a place of unremitting failure and ...
News Afghanistan Banks: Iran warns about rise of terrorist groups in Afghanistan
TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) â Iranâs envoy and Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN warns that terrorism and the emergence of terrorist groups pose a "serious threat" to Afghanistan, its neighbors, the region, and the entire international community.
News Afghanistan Banks: Episode 163: What's happening with Afghanistan's funds?
In this episode, Medea Benjamin and Hadiya Afzal of Unfreeze Afghanistan explain the Biden administration’s recent move to create a $3.5 billion fund "Afghan Fund" through a Swiss bank, and what it ...
News Afghanistan Banks: Afghanistan’s money is crumbling to pieces, just like its economy
Because of sanctions, economically stricken Afghanistan is now a cash-only society — but that's a problem when its banknotes are falling apart.
News Afghanistan Banks: Biden to Drip-Feed Afghanistan Its $3.5 Billion in Frozen Reserves
Analysis: Biden to Drip-Feed Afghanistan Its $3.5 Billion in Frozen Reserves Biden to Drip-Feed Afghanistan Its $3.5 Bi... | View Comments () The decision by the United States to release $3.5 billion ...
News Afghanistan Banks: New World Bank Survey Offers a Snapshot of Living Conditions in Afghanistan
The World Bank today released results of a household survey conducted in Afghanistan in the fall of 2021 to assess changes in basic living conditions in the early days of the interim Taliban administration.
News Afghanistan Banks: Sanctioned Taliban Financier Holds Leadership Post at Afghan Central Bank
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has appointed a man blacklisted by the U.S., the United Nations and the European Union to help lead the country’s central bank, according to people familiar with the matter.
News Afghanistan Banks: Food security worsens in Afghanistan as wages fall: World Bank
Food security in Afghanistan has deteriorated sharply since the Taliban took power in August, while wages have fallen "dramatically" for more than two-thirds of workers, a World Bank survey said Tuesday.
News Afghanistan Banks: More Afghans going hungry, fewer jobs available -World Bank
The number of people in Afghanistan who cannot afford food and other essentials has doubled since the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021 as unemployment rises and wages fall, a World Bank ...