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		Bank licensing requirements are designed to prevent the control or significant ownership of financial institutions by criminals or their associates.
		Often the law requires banks not to inform clients of their actions but instead to cooperate with the regulators or law enforcement agencies, who may be required to further investigate the transactions' background and purpose.
		Although the central bank currently does not conduct fitness and probity tests of applicants, determine the reasonableness of the applicants business plan or assess the adequacy of the capi- tal proposed for the business, this is an important first step at ensuring the operators legitimacy.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2003/10/16/000090341_20031016085357/Rendered/INDEX/269720PAPER0Money0exchange0dealers.txt (13950 words)

	Terrorism - Afghanistan Economic Recovery
		Afghan civil servants received their first pay in 7 months only when the UN Development Program channeled $6 million to the Afghan central bank in February.
		The central bank is in close consultation with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) regarding the establishment of a functional banking, monetary and accounting systems.
		Considering the total disarray of Afghanistan’s banking sector — the teetering central bank aside, the country has no commercial banks, and regional banks are only loosely tied to the central bank — Pakistan’s offer is telling of its optimism in its next-door neighbor’s revival.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/afghan-econ-pr.cfm (1250 words)

	Pakistan News PakTribune.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Central Bank has taken the decision to strengthen the Afghani after growing circulation of foreign currencies in the country especially the Pakistani currency.
		Commenting on the orders of Afghan Central Bank, Deputy Governor of the Bank, Abdul Karim Sajjad said that under the new laws promulgated by the Afghan Central Bank, Afghani would be used as single currency in Afghanistan.
		The Bank has taken the decision, after the reports that Afghani is not being used in some provinces of Afghanistan especially in southern border belt of Afghanistan.
	www.paktribune.com /news/index.php?id=41394 (194 words)

	PO-943: Treasury Signs License Unblocking Frozen Afghan Assets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The license will unblock approximately $193 million in gold and $24 million in other assets of the Afghan Central Bank held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
		The Secretary of State has certified that the AIA is the recognized legitimate authority to operate the account.
		These funds will now be available to help stabilize the Afghan economy, strengthen the operations of the central bank, and shape a better future for the people of Afghanistan
	www.ustreas.gov /press/releases/po943.htm (246 words)

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		He is the vault custodian for the central bank where all of the Afghan gold reserves are stored, some going back hundreds of years.
		The Afghans have their national election in October and it seems they are expecting the bad guys to try and disrupt things a la Iraq.
		Bank is closed and they have advised all foreigners to stay inside - there are several public events today to honor the Great Massoud and it is expected that the bad guys will try and disrupt them.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/11/25/afghanjournal.html (9516 words)

	Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives
		Afghan officials in Kabul and the regions are alternately confused and amused, as well as frustrated and angered by the different signals, commitments and policies of these various U.S. agencies operating in their country.
		Today, the CIA’s ignorance of the complicated Afghan situation, scarce CIA human intelligence assets in Afghanistan and the Agency’s independent ability to secretly fund Afghan contenders are all too reminiscent of the CIA’s counterproductive tactics during that period.
		The emphasis must be on gradually strengthening the central government, and its reach into the regions through the center’s economic, police and military presence in the provinces.
	wwwc.house.gov /international_relations/108/tom0619.htm (2944 words)

	Dollar, rupee still in use in Afghanistan -DAWN - Business; June 1, 2003
		The head of the Afghan central bank admitted that before the launch of re-denominated afghani US dollar and rupee were used frequently to settle payments.
		He said one of the basic purposes of introducing the new currency was to keep an eye over monetary expansion and the central bank has met this objective to a great extent.
		Ahady said at the present the central bank of Afghanistan is autonomous in the sense that it is independent of the ministry of finance — but it is not independent of the president of the government.
	www.dawn.com /2003/06/01/ebr6.htm (577 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Afghan Americans Hold Levers of Power
		Four other cabinet members, the governor of the Central Bank, Karzai's chief of staff and one of four vice presidents are Afghan Americans who lived for years in exile.
		He says he is the most highly and widely educated Afghan in the world when it comes to military affairs, and he has written extensively about the Afghan military for scholarly journals and the mass media, in addition to reporting on Afghanistan and Central Asia for VOA for almost two decades.
		Many Afghan and Western observers say the aggressive approach that officials such as Jalali bring to their ministries is essential to the development of the country.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A49209-2003Feb9?language=printer (1152 words)

	Bankintroductions.com - AFGHANISTAN
		Afghanistan’s central bank reserves were measured in year 2002 at $200 million USD in gold held by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in New York.
		At present, a significant 1.7 million Afghans out of a total population of 30 million are involved in the opium industry (one in 10 of the labor force) with a great many citizens themselves addicted drug users.
		The new Afghan afghani was introduced on October 2002 whereby 1000 old AFA was redominated to 1 AFA, the afghanis is widely accepted.
	www.bankintroductions.com /afghan.html (2348 words)

	Sabawoon Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The new, 22-district structure of Kabul city, was endorsed by the interior minister, the mayor of Kabul city and the governor of Kabul Province today.
		Afghan President Hamed Karzai has defended the appointment to the new foreign, water and power, and information and culture ministers and said he was confident that all of them had the right qualifications for the job.
		KABUL - Nearly all the ministers in the new Afghan cabinet have declared their assets except for three, who have not met the registration deadline which expired yesterday, presidential officials said Tuesday 11.
	www.sabawoon.com /read.asp?cat=1&newsdate=1/12/2005 (516 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Excitement at new Afghan currency
		And in the lobby of the Central Bank in Kabul there is a real sense of excitement at the changeover.
		Bank tellers are sitting at windows where notices are displayed to inform people where they should hand over their old notes and where they should collect their new.
		Governor of the Afghan Central Bank, Anwar ul-Huq
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/2305659.stm (375 words)

	Afghan central bank faces tough task - 02/13/02
		Afghanistan's central bank is at the heart of a chaotic monetary system based entirely on cash.
		Afghans can count money faster than any American, holding the wad in one hand and rapidly shuffling the index finger of the other through the stack.
		IMF and World Bank experts recommended recently that the dollar be used as an interim currency until a new afghani can be introduced.
	www.detnews.com /2002/nation/0202/13/a10w-414778.htm (821 words)

	CNN.com
		This is supported by the central government, supported by the international community, by international organizations and, as I say, the warlords or the more powerful governors that can also be described as warlords, they have pledged their support for this project and we have received support from them.
		This is not only with the Afghan currency; this has been the case with most currencies when you introduce it for the first time.
		But the main reason, in the past few years, that the Afghan currency has lost its value has not been so much because of lack of control on the part of the central government, but it has been because of printing too much money by different centers.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0210/07/i_qaa.01.html (3154 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| Afghanistan backs national currency
		The central bank in Afghanistan has intervened to support the national currency, buying $500,000 worth of afghanis from the Kabul money market.
		Everyone had expected the Afghan currency to gain as national hopes rose with the return of the former king.
		The Afghan central bank's intervention scarcely affected the currency.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/1944719.stm (241 words)

	News from the Washington File
		Afghan citizens will do likewise when they realize that their deposits are safe, he said.
		The new Afghan government, under President Hamid Karzai, did away with both versions, exchanging them for the new afghani at a rate of 1,000 to one.
		The overall role of foreign banks in Afghanistan is still not decided, he said, and the Central Bank will consider each application for entry into the Afghan market based on its particular merits.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/04/mil-030417-usia03.htm (413 words)

	U.S., Others Commit $1,800 Million to Afghanistan in First Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Larson said Chairman Hamid Karzai, the interim Afghan leader, made a "very, very strong showing" at the meeting and made a "strong commitment to running an accountable administration." He said a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is working with the interim authority to establish an accountable system for disbursing donated funds.
		Karzai emphasized the "traditional entrepreneurial character of the Afghan people" and their desire to "be standing on their own two feet" as quickly as possible, Larson said.
		In addition, he said, there is another $25 million in Afghan Central Bank funds being held in other accounts, $23 million in overflight fees that has been held in escrow and $1.3 million belonging to Ariana Afghan Airlines available to Afghanistan's government.
	www.usembassy.it /file2002_01/alia/a2012506.htm (539 words)

	Sabawoon Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation program, in a statement released Sunday at its fourth ministerial conference held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, said Afghanistan is strategically...
		The 22-year-old midfielder has been a member of the national team for nearly a year and is proud to have made the grade.
		A suicide bomber tried to kill the governor of a volatile southern Afghan province by blowing up an explosives-filled vehicle as the official was going to work, officials said.
	www.sabawoon.com /read.asp?cat=1&newsdate=1/12/2005 (508 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. unblocks Afghan Central Bank assets - January 24, 2002
		"These funds will now be available to help stabilize the Afghan economy, strengthen the operations of the central bank and shape a better future for the people of Afghanistan," Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said in a statement.
		The move makes the interim Afghan administration the signatories of all of the frozen assets in the United States.
		The officials said the release of the assets in the United States did not come immediately after the Afghan interim authority took office last month because Secretary of State Colin Powell had to certify that the new government was legitimate.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/01/24/afghan.assets (286 words)

	Only Allah Knows Why - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anwar Ul-haq Ahady is the Afghan Central Bank governor, and Gailani used to take the position of the vice president during the time when Mujahideens were at power, prior to the Taliban regime.
		Pakistan was very unhappy with the fact that Afghan demonstrators burnt Pervez Musharraf's doll and attacked the embassy in Kabul.
		First and foremost, a senior Afghan official will have to apologize, organizers of the pogrom will have to be arrested and Afghans will have to compensate the damage.
	english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=10537 (893 words)

	Afghani -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Afghani is the system of (The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used) currency used in (A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south) Afghanistan.
		The new afghani received a new (Click link for more info and facts about ISO 4217) ISO 4217 code of AFN (replacing the earlier AFA) and had three zeros knocked off, with the new afghani valued at 43 AFN per USD.
		This was in preparation for October 8 when all prices in the Afghan marketplace were to be specified in afghanis.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/af/afghani.htm (223 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Afghan Central Bank Governor Anwarulhaq Ahadi poses with sample 1,000 and 500 Afghani banknotes in his office in Kabul on Saturday.
		However, even a year later, movement beyond the Darul Aman, once the Afghan King’s secretariat and palace that is located at the edge of the city, is ill advised.
		Apart from the remnants of the Taliban and the Al-Qaida that have demonstrated their capacity to strike even in the capital, central authority is routinely defied even by the warlords that have supposedly allied themselves with the Northern Alliance that runs the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20021007/main4.htm (786 words)

	U.S. Expects Aid for Afghanistan, Iraq (phillyBurbs.com) \| Asia
		He said the Afghan government was "extremely grateful" for the extra U.S. support and denied that the international community was neglecting Afghanistan because of the spiraling cost of stabilizing Iraq.
		Before meeting Karzai, Snow attended a ceremony at the central bank, where the first operating licenses were awarded to three foreign banks under laws passed earlier this week.
		The banks who got their licenses were Britain's Standard Chartered, the National Bank of Pakistan and a microcredit bank funded by the Aga Khan Foundation.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/90-09182003-162024.html (710 words)

	AFGHANISTAN’S RECONSTRUCTION: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The participating Afghan groups expressed their determination to end the tragic conflict through national reconciliation and integration, but at the same time urged the world community to play its critical role in supporting the Afghans to build a brighter future, by fulfilling their pledges of financial assistance to the new Afghan Interim set-up.
		The ‘Afghan Interim Authority Fund’ (AIAF) was created by the UN in December 2001 to provide a channel for donors’ funds for immediate and urgent programmes, such as civil servant salaries.
		The degree of damage to the Afghan infrastructure during the last 23 years and the scope of reconstruction are so vast that a one year time period and $2.1 bn worth of funding are not sufficient even to jump start such a gigantic reconstruction task.
	www.issi.org.pk /strategic_studies_htm/2003/no_3/article/4a.htm (3737 words)

	UAE - The Official Web Site - News
		Official banking sources said this significant growth mirrored the banks' trend to increase the volume of their loans and finances to keep pace with the boom experienced by different sectors.
		The sources explained that banks increased their facilities in a bid to match the promising opportunities for growth brought about by the historic oil price rise and to increase their market share in a milieu of fierce competition.
		The National Bank of Abu Dhabi registered a record in the volume of its finances at Dh46 billion to the end of the third quarter of the current year compared with Dh35.4 billion by the end of last year, up by 29.9 per cent.
	www.uaeinteract.com /news?cntDisplay=10&ID=219 (2111 words)

	CBS News \| Coining Hope In Afghanistan \| April 11, 2005 23:30:08
		The last coins, introduced in 1975 according to Central Bank chief Noorullah Delawari, were made worthless by runaway inflation after the collapse of Afghanistan's communist government in 1992 and fell out of use.
		In another sign of progress, Afghan officials on Sunday said they backed plans to turn a palace destroyed in the civil war of the 1990s into the eventual home of parliament.
		But Afghan Economy Minister Amin Farhang said it would be up to wealthy Afghans and foreign donors to pay the estimated $60-$70 million cost of the 10-year reconstruction.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/11/world/main687373.shtml (463 words)

	GN Online: U.S. lifts sanctions on Afghan banks, Ariana
		However, the apex bank chief clarified that the application would be considered only when the issues related to the sanctions against Afghanistan were sorted out.
		As of now, Afghan banking activities are frozen and only after the UN lifts the sanctions, can they be normalised.
		With the OFAC clearing the sanctions against the central bank and the airline, financial observers expect that the UN will officially announce the removal of the sanctions soon.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=41261 (292 words)

	Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, January 24, 2002
		It allows the new Afghan Interim Authority to access the assets of the Afghan Central Bank held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
		It unblocks approximately $193 million worth of gold and $24 million in other assets of the Afghan Central Bank that are held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
		I think we mentioned that at the meetings in Kabul we collected some signatures from Afghan officials, sort of the same kind of signature card you fill out whenever you start a bank account, so that they could demonstrate their authority over the monies.
	www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/peace/archives/2002/january/012501.html (5230 words)

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		Much like the country it serves, Afghanistan's central bank has sunk so far over the years that it has almost nowhere to go but up.
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	radio.weblogs.com /0100103/2002/10/06.html (3988 words)

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