The government loses revenue worth 30 million USD to illegal mining that profits the Taleban. Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industries Abdul Bari Rahman calculates 80 percent of mining including of semi-precious and precious stones, is lost to the government. ...
Spurious cosmetics are widely sold in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Public Health says local companies produce only 5 percent of cosmetics sold country-wide. The rest comes from neighbours like Pakistan, China, Iran, India and Turkey. ...
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Farmers have returned to opium cultivation in 20 provinces – a setback to nearly 14 years of efforts to eradicate the root of the world’s biggest source of heroin. Poppy fields are flourishing in Helmand and also in other provinces like Kandahar, Farah, Uruzgan, Nimroz, Herat, Zabul, Badakhshan, Nangarhar, Daikundi, Baghlan, Laghman, Faryab, ...
The arrest of two senior officials for corruption in the Kabul Municipality has been widely reported as evidence of the government’s efforts to counter corruption. President Ashraf Ghani has also reshuffled some 40 high-ranking officials in the Attorney General’s Office (AG’s Office) and heads of provincial appeals courts. ...