West Afghanistan female dress-code crackdown hits businesses
Herat (Afghanistan) (AFP) - Businesses in Afghanistan's western city of Herat have suffered from a downturn in female customers opting ...
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Afghan car trade screeches to a halt due to regional wars
Spin Boldak (Afghanistan) (AFP) - In Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a once-thriving business of trading car parts from far-flung places ...
Afghanistan seeks new trade routes as Pakistan ties sour
Kabul (AFP) - Afghanistan is scrambling to diversify its trade partners after a deadly border clash with Pakistan last month ...
Afghan mobile access to Facebook, Instagram intentionally restricted: watchdog
Kabul (AFP) - Access to several social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, has been "intentionally restricted" in Afghanistan, ...
Cash-strapped Taliban look to airspace for windfall
Kabul (AFP) - Far above Kabul, the cash-strapped Taliban government has located a potentially lucrative revenue stream: Afghanistan's airspace. As ...
Influx of Afghan returnees fuels Kabul housing crisis
Kabul (AFP) - Weeks after he was forced to return from Iran, Mohammad Mohsen Zaryab was still searching for somewhere ...
Thousands of Afghans scramble for chance to work in Qatar
Herat (Afghanistan) (AFP) - When Mohammad Hanif heard Qatar was opening jobs to Afghans, he joined thousands of others to ...
Cash-keen Taliban betting on Afghanistan’s mines
Goshta (Afghanistan) (AFP) - A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing ...
Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban
Kabul (AFP) - When Zainab Ferozi saw Afghan women struggling to feed their families after Taliban authorities took power, she ...
Afghanistan says to begin work on huge gas pipeline
Islim Cheshma (Turkmenistan) (AFP) - Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia ...
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