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Ghani Announces Urban, Rural Ownership Registration Program
Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has announced the urban, rural ownership registration program on Saturday, saying the following program will formalize the properties of the Kabul city, it will also prevent the opportunists not to be able to grab the lands, house of others.
President Ghani also insisted having temporary, none official documentation of the properties in Kabul indicate being no safety of the lands and houses.
According to the land Bureau currently 70 percent of the properties in urban and 80 percent of properties in rural are none officially owned.
Further President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said,” formalization of the properties of the people will resolve one of the important social problems, the registration of the properties will officially be launched, so that people don’t have butter flies in their hearts.”
“This will also prevent the opportunists not to be capable to seize the people properties, this is contrary to Islamic laws and not acceptable for anyone President Ghani during his statement said,”
He also mentioned there are some who are not willing to let the big development plans to be implemented in the country.
Mr. Ghani said,” there are few who are disagree in giving points of views, but in action there will be some who don’t want the big plans to be implemented for development of Afghanistan.”
It’s mentionable that registration of the Kabul properties is in the priority of the following office, but Kabul is experiencing several difficulties over sewage, no proper canalization, irrigation system, and healthy environment.
Reported by Ali Asghari
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Export volume totals over $140 million in last month of 1402
The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) confirmed Tuesday that in the last month of solar year 1402, (March 2024) Afghanistan’s exports totaled $141.1 million and imports totaled $789.6 million.
This was down from $174 million for exports in the same period in 1401. However, imports increased by $99.2 million in 1402, up from $690.4 million.
Most exports in the last month of 1402 went to Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates, while in the last month of 1401 exports went to Pakistan, India and China.
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Afghanistan-Kazakhstan chamber of commerce opens in Herat
The Ministry of Interior said the governor of Herat province Islam Jar met with Alim Khan Yasin Gildaye, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Afghanistan, to discuss various issues around trade.
According to the ministry, the two sides discussed the expansion of trade facilities, increasing the volume of trade exchanges between traders of the two countries, reducing customs tariffs, solving the challenges of traders and issuing visas to them.
The Afghanistan-Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce has been opened in Herat in order to facilitate and increase trade between the two countries.
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Afghanistan reaches self-sufficiency in production of 133 items: MoIC
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) says Afghanistan has reached self-sufficiency in 45 sectors and the production of 133 items, and that the ministry is striving to change Afghanistan from an importing country to an exporting one.
The ministry officials said that for this purpose, supporting domestic products and attracting investment is essential.
The ministry’s spokesman Abdul Salam Jawad Akhundzada emphasized increasing the use of domestic goods and products in government and national projects and added that efforts have also begun to find a market for domestic products inside and outside the country.
“We have reached self-sufficiency in 133 items of production, which is 45 sectors, and also we reached the capacity of semi-self-sufficiency in 95 items of production, which is 27 sectors,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Chamber of Industries and Mines (ACIM) says over the past two and a half years, more attention has been paid to the development of domestic production and it is also expanding.
The chamber officials stressed expanding the culture of using domestic products in government projects.
“I think that the government is one of the biggest consumers in the market if it uses domestic products in all its development projects,” said Abdul Nasir Rashtia, a member of ACIM.
Economic experts also said that if the use of domestic products in government projects increases, Afghanistan will quickly move towards economic independence.
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