DECEIVE AFGHANSITAN AMBITIONS

LETS DECEIVE AFGHANISTAN AMBITIONS
LETS FIGHT AGAINST THE CURRENT CRISIS AND INFLATION OF AFGHANISTAN

LETS CHANGE THE FAKE TO REALITY... i am always thinking positive about my country economics despite of thousand problems , the current vibe i think its a bad vibe of economics, the afghan people is living under below poverty,, since the corruption is running we are disable to achieve prosperity and economic stability,,, WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT LONG-RUN POLICY.my country is serious patient that need doctors and equipment and medicine to treat us,unfortunately they are luck of afghanistan,, lets make ourselves expert doctor and lets find money to purchase the needs and lets treat our patient to give relief and a new smile..
we can bring peace, development, smile, disinflation, strong economic wall, stock markets, high balance of trade and,satisfactory balance of payment, lets increase agriculture, gaining former and posing them more utilities. how to achieve these easy task, just what target you have in your mind retain it then conduct it . we need to forget the fake and come to reality ,,who we are and what we are doing lets help each other, iam respecting society for enabling love to me now we are not in ERA of sward fight and not existing of AHMAD SHAH DURANI and MUHMOD GHAZNAWI to quankor a beautiful country and implement our leadership and build REDFORT and OLDFARD for our self, ITS EDUCATION POWER need it now , we have to try as much as possilbe to make beautiful our own country and build REDFORT for our self in our own country.

HAPPY NEW PERSIAN YEAR

HAPPY NEW HEJRI SHAMSY YEAR

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Monday, 14 April 2008

Dream and Achieve is looking for entrepreneurs. Do you have a business? Are you meeting a need in your community? Are you ambitious, persistent, and courageously tackling the challenges of business in Afghanistan? Or do you have a great idea that will change the lives of Afghan people for the better? We are looking for you! Social entrepreneurs start businesses that are practical, innovative and sustainable. They look to benefit society, especially the marginalized and poor. Rather than sit back and wait, leaving the problems to the government or foreign donors, social entrepreneurs take matters into their own hands because they are determined to change the status-quo and implement their business--despite the risks involved. Social entrepreneurs are leaders and role models. They prove that citizens who channel their passion into action can do almost anything. There is nothing as powerful as a new idea in the hands of someone who can make a good business and improve the lives of others. Please use the next several lines to explain your great business idea. It could be an idea that will expand your current business, or it could be an entirely new business. It should be just one project. Aamyar need your comment on this topic....

BANKS IN AFGHANISTAN

1. Afghanistan International Bank
2. Azizi Bank
3. Arian Bank
4. Bank-E-Mili Afghan
5. Bank Alfalah Ltd
6. BRAC Afghanistan Bank
7. Development Bank of Afghanistan
8. Export Promotion Bank
9. Habib Bank of Pakistan
10. Kabul Bank
11. National Bank of Pakistan
12. Pashtany Bank
13. Punjab National Bank - India
14. Standard Chartered Bank
15. The First MicroFinanceBank

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Afghan Carpet Business Booming Again

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—In a country of crushing poverty, Ghamay Mohammed has sold enough of his intricately woven rugs lately to buy a hulking ruby and turquoise ring, which he proudly displays on his finger.

The carpet business is booming once again in Afghanistan, and Mohammed is one of the many carpet dealers who have returned to take advantage of the foreigners streaming in since the fall of the Taliban.

Since we reopened this shop, we've already sold more than 60 carpets, says Mohammed, 18, who closed one of his shops on the Pakistani border two months ago to reopen one in Kandahar. That's better than what we did for a year at our shop near Chaman on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

After lean years under the Taliban regime, throngs of foreign aid workers, journalists, soldiers and diplomats have flocked to Afghanistan with plenty of cash to spend.

The influx has hiked the demand for carpets, which used to be Afghanistan's third largest export after oil and fruit. Export revenues from the carpet industry were once estimated at more than $250 million, although it is unclear how much the industry is worth today.

Carpet connoisseurs say Afghan carpets are special because of the quality of wool that is used and the tightness of the weave, often achieved with the nimble fingers of child laborers. They also praise the varied designs that reflect the ethnic diversity of the country and the use of vegetable dyes made from walnuts, pomegranates, flowers and onions.

Even in the former Taliban stronghold of the south, considered a backwater to some international aid groups and agencies who have congregated around the capital, Kabul, carpet dealers have returned, sometimes doing business within 24 hours upon arrival.

They get cheaper prices on items brought from Herat, a western city near the Iranian border where many of Afghanistan's finest carpets are either made or imported.

Most dealers know each other but are merciless competitors.

Other shop owners try to cheat their customers, says Mohammed. But this is a respectable business and we sell the finest carpets. Take a look around and you'll see the difference.

Afghanistan has long been famous for its carpets: colorful loose-weave rugs from the Baluch nomads, silk Uzbek designs, and the popular war carpets emblazoned with tanks and assault rifles inspired by the Soviet invasion of 1979.

And just as the war on terrorism has revived an entrepreneurial spirit in carpet dealers, it has also given artistic inspiration.

This is one of my favorites, says Aminullah Popal, a 50-year-old carpet dealer holding a small rug showing a plane crashing through New York's World Trade Center towers. That was the economic center of the world. Now people are coming here to Afghanistan.

The twin towers carpet is not being mass produced and was made by a Herat carpet weaver who visited New York after Sept. 11.

It was a tragic event, says Popal. But just like carpet dealers who used the Soviet invasion in their work, this is also being used.

Popal sold his shop in the Pakistani border city of Quetta two weeks ago and opened the Noor Jahan carpet shop in Kandahar. He used to get about one customer each month.

Now, I get at least ten and if two people buy a nice piece, that pays the rent. There's much better business here now that the Taliban is gone.

The carpets range from $50 to thousands depending on how much bartering the merchant and buyer can stomach. But the high demand in Afghanistan doesn't always bode well for the consumer.

We get a 30 percent profit from foreigners compared to 10 percent from locals, said Mohammed, squirming because of the question. But as long as foreigners stay, we will too. If they leave, so do we.

© 2002 The Associated Press

List of stock exchanges

Twenty Major Stock Exchanges In The World: Market Capitalization & Year-to-date Turnover at the end of January 2009

Region	Stock Exchange	Market Value (millions USD)	Total Share Turnover (millions USD)
Africa	Johannesburg Securities Exchange	432,422.1	17,999.7
Americas	NASDAQ	2,203,759.6	2,325,238.3
Americas	São Paulo Stock Exchange	611,695.0	30,748.5
Americas	Toronto Stock Exchange	997,997.4	84,323.0
Americas	New York Stock Exchange	9,363,074.0	1,517,615.7
Asia-Pacific	Australian Securities Exchange	587,602.7	37,400.1
Asia-Pacific	Bombay Stock Exchange	613,187.6	14,425.0
Asia-Pacific	Hong Kong Stock Exchange	1,237,999.5	80,696.8
Asia-Pacific	Korea Exchange	470,417.3	81,755.0
Asia-Pacific	National Stock Exchange of India	572,566.8	39,057.1
Asia-Pacific	Shanghai Stock Exchange	1,557,161.3	142,144.2
Asia-Pacific	Shenzhen Stock Exchange	389,248.3	75,365.5
Asia-Pacific	Tokyo Stock Exchange	2,922,616.3	301,781.5
Europe	Euronext	1,862,930.9	146,173.3
Europe	Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse)	937,452.9	264,970.3
Europe	London Stock Exchange	1,758,157.7	241,151.1
Europe	Madrid Stock Exchange (Bolsas y Mercados Españoles)	871,061.4	114,994.0
Europe	Milan Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana)	456,206.7	48,094.8
Europe	Nordic Stock Exchange Group OMX1	503,725.8	55,299.9
Europe	Swiss Exchange	761,896.1	63,435.6

China to mine copper in Afghanistan

China is continuing its hunt for minerals in Australia and Africa to secure its future requirements. It is now developing a massive copper deposit in neighbouring war-torn Taliban region of Afghanistan, considered as the most dangerous place in the world.

In November 2007, the Karzai government in Afghanistan in collaboration with NATO forces auctioned the huge Aynak copper deposit under the US Agency for International Development (USAID) plan and arbitrarily awarded the mining rights to Chinese state enterprise, China Metallurgical Group, for $3.5 billion.

Part of the deal was to develop a coal mine located in the vicinity, which in turn could power a Chinese-built 400 MW power plant for the mine and its smelters, and to construct Afghanistan's first railway, which will link Western China through Tajikistan to the Aynak mine and then on to its long-time friend, Pakistan in its continuing bid to encircle India.

Other bidders for the copper deposit were Vancouver-based Hunter-Dickinson, which had made an approximate $2-billion bid, Phoenix-based Phelps Dodge, London-based Kazakhmys Consortium, and a subsidiary of Russia's Basic Element Group.

The 28 square kilometre Aynak copper field, which is said to hold the world's largest unexploited deposits of copper, lies 35 kilometres southeast of Kabul and according to unofficial sources, is estimated to hold approximately 240 million tons of copper ore while online geography journal GeoJournal has put a more conservative figure of over 11 million metric tons of recoverable copper, which can be recovered through surface mining.

The NATO forces, in conjunction with the Afghan government thought it would be too risky for a private enterprise to undertake the massive infrastructure project as well as develop the Aynak copper deposit, which is spread over a vast area of hostile Taliban territory.

Although most Western governments have their state-financed insurance plans to secure such investments, no government is at present willing to consider risking such a massive investment in an environment where no citizen from any nation is safe.

The very process of arbitrarily awarding the mining rights to a Chinese company goes to show that it was a strategic plan to put the burden of development on China, which hopes to gain a foothold in the mineral-rich country if an US-led government rules Afghanistan for in the future.

The railway line, which will be built by the Chinese under the contract will also benefit NATO countries in the future as it will provide access to other mines and development sites yet to be auctioned.

Last month, US troops set up their bases running alongside a dirt track being built by a Chinese company as an access road to the Aynak copper reserves. The US forces are also making their presence felt in Logar province, where the Aynak deposit is located.

Although the US forces are deployed to ward off Taliban incursion in Kabul, inadverntally, they are also protecting Chinese workers at the Aynak copper site.

The Taliban has moved into the outskirts of Kabul after China was awarded the mining rights for the Aynak copper reserve and in the beginning of the year, and the US army deployed more than 2,000 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division to the Logar and Wardak regions of Afghanistan.

Experts have been asking why China is taking such a huge risk by building a huge infrastructure amid the continuing war.

Afghanistan has traditionally been endowed with gems and semi-precious stones, metals, and marble, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) report of 2002 showed that there were more than 1,000 deposits.

The survey also confirmed that Afghanistan not only had abundant minerals but also plenty of hydrocarbon resources and according to an Afghan geology expert, John Shroder, said that although the Soviets had made a survey earlier, the oil and natural gas reserves in Afghanistan as surveyed by the USGS is far in excess of earlier Soviet estimates.

Among the minerals found in the survey were substantial amounts of gold, copper, iron, mercury, lead, and rare metals such as cesium, lithium, niobium, and tantalum.

An Afghanistan ministry of mines brochure claims that an iron deposit at Hajigak in the Bamiyan province, contains 1.8 billion tonnes of ore with a concentration of 62 per cent iron.

About the IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 185 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

MEMBER M.OF SDR %OF TOTAL GOR.AL
AFGHANISTAN 161.9 0.07 ABDUL
QUADEER FITRAT

VOTES

NUMBER PERCENT OF TOTAL
1,869 0.08

IMF Members' Quotas and Voting Power, and IMF Board of Governors..

AFGHANISTAN VOTES AND RANKING IN IMF

About the IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 185 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

MEMBER M.OF SDR %OF TOTAL GOR.AL
AFGHANISTAN 161.9 0.07 ABDUL
QUADEER FITRAT

VOTES

NUMBER PERCENT OF TOTAL
1,869 0.08

IMF Members' Quotas and Voting Power, and IMF Board of Governors KHAN