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  Afghanistan - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Afghanistan nation-state as it is known today came into existence in 1746 under the Durrani Empire, but control was ceded to the United Kingdom until King Amanullah acceded to the throne in 1919.
Afghanistan is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest.
International efforts to rebuild Afghanistan lead to the formulation of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA), as a result of the December 2001 Bonn Agreement, and later addressed at the Tokyo Donors Conference for Afghan Reconstruction in January 2002, where $4.5 billion was collected for a trust fund to be administered by the World Bank.
open-encyclopedia.com /Afghanistan   (1890 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Afghanistan (1911 Encyclopedia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Afghanistan (Pashtu/Iran in the west, Pakistan in the south and east, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the easternmost part of the country.
The Afghanistan nation-state as it is known today came into existence in 1746 under the Durrani Empire, but control was ceded to the United Kingdom until King Amanullah acceded to the throne in 1919 (see "The Great Game").
Currently, Afghanistan is led by president Hamid Karzai, who was hand-picked by the Bush Administration to lead an interim government after the fall of the Taliban.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Afghanistan-(1911-Encyclopedia)   (2010 words)

  
 Afghanistan Country Study
The formal banking system in Afghanistan was established during the country's initial economic modernization in the 1930s.
Da Afghanistan Bank, the largest in the country, was the center of the formal banking system.
In March 1982 the central bank- was made independent of the Ministry of Finance; the governor of the central bank was designated general president and given the rank of a cabinet minister.
www.gl.iit.edu /govdocs/afghanistan/BankingandMonetoryPolicy.html   (2319 words)

  
 ICP / Fair Finance Watch: Central Asia - Focus 2005 on Afghanistan (and Turkmenistan)
Banking activity is regulated by the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic On Banks and Banking Activity of July 29, 1997 and the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic On the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic of July 29, 1997.
Banks are advised to keep this in view while submitting their annual branch expansion plan for year 2005 and onwards.
Niyazov and Deutsche Bank board member Tessen von Heidebraek highly assessed the fulfilment of the agreement on cooperation between the German Bank and the government of Turkmenistan signed in 1996 and approved the signing of a new agreement on continued cooperation.
www.fairfinancewatch.org /centralasia.html   (1044 words)

  
 Da Afghanistan Bank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Da Afghanistan Bank افغانستان بانک in Pashto) is the central bank of Afghanistan.
It regulates all the banking and money handling operations in Afghanistan.
This bank, insurance, or financial corporation article is a stub.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Da_Afghanistan_Bank   (69 words)

  
 ING Mandated to Establish and Manage Afghanistan International Bank
ING and a consortium of investors have submitted the license application to set-up the Afghanistan International Bank to Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan's Central Bank, to receive approval under the commercial and central banking laws ratified on 16th September 2003.
Upon approval, the Afghanistan International Bank will be one of the first home-grown Afghan commercial banks to be set-up in the last 23 years.
The bank aims to become a model bank in Afghanistan, established and managed in accordance with international best practice.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-21-2003/0002039964&EDATE=   (515 words)

  
 business.iafrica.com | features Afghanistan banks on new currency
Afghanistan began replacing its troubled afghani currency on Monday with new banknotes it hopes will bring stability to the country's badly damaged economy and attract much-needed investment.
One version of the note which is in use in northern Afghanistan is worth just a half of the currency used in the rest of the country.
Another note in use in a small corner of north-eastern Afghanistan dates back to the time when the region remained in the hands of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance while the rest of the country was ruled by the militia.
business.iafrica.com /features/173091.htm   (657 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Country Status 1 Afghanistan is one of the poorest and longest-suffering countries among the members of the World Bank.
Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) has limited satellite-based connectivity with its provincial Banks, and it is likely that the Ministry of Finance (MOF), at least in the short term, will be able to share that capacity.
Afghanistan will ensure that the TRAA is completely independent of any operator or service provider in the ICT sector.
www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2003/09/17/000012009_20030917101312/Rendered/INDEX/T7602.txt   (9461 words)

  
 [ www.azadiradio.org ]
Former Da Afghanistan Bank head Anwar al-Haq Ahadi was appointed the new finance minister.
Khairkhwah said that during the decade-long (1979-89) Soviet occupation of Afghanistan "around 1.5 million" Afghans were killed and 7 million took refuge in other countries and "everything was ruined" in Afghanistan.
A monument to the "internationalist soldiers" was unveiled on 27 December in Moscow to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the "introduction of Soviet troops" to Afghanistan, Russia's ORT reported.
www.azadiradio.org /en/dailyreport/2004/12/28.ASP   (549 words)

  
 News - AKFED to Set Up Afghanistan's First Microfinance Bank, 18 September 2003
Governor Anwar ul-Haq Ahady of Da Afghanistan Bank, the country's central bank, presented the licence to Aly Mawji, the Resident Representative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) at a ceremony in Kabul.
The Bank will focus on the poor and the underserved and target small businesses, which are expected to be Afghanistan's central source of economic growth and employment for the foreseeable future.
The establishment of FMFB is an integral part of the AKDN's commitment to contribute to the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the economic infrastructure and civil society institutions in Afghanistan.
www.akdn.org /news/fmb_180903.htm   (859 words)

  
 Eight banks keen to set up branches in Kabul -DAWN - Business; June 1, 2003
Visiting Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank (the central bank of Afghanistan) Dr Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady said here on Saturday that foreign banks might soon be allowed to operate from Afghanistan.
He said the central bank of Afghanistan has requested the SBP to help in training bankers to operate in a global environment.
State Bank Governor Dr Ishrat Husain said while introducing his Afghan counterpart that the SBP could help the central bank of Afghanistan in organizing its financial and capital markets — and the central bank itself.
www.dawn.com /2003/06/01/ebr2.htm   (700 words)

  
 [ www.azadiradio.org ]
According to the new provisions, Afghanistan's central bank (Da Afghanistan Bank) will be separated from commercial banks and become an independent entity.
Under the previous Afghan banking system, Da Afghanistan Bank was part of the Finance Ministry and all commercial banks were state-run.
Construction of the TAP pipeline project, which is to transit natural gas from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to Pakistan and beyond, is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2004.
www.azadiradio.org /en/dailyreport/2003/09/17.ASP   (457 words)

  
 Timeline Afghanistan
Plant remains at the foothill of the Hindu Kush mountains indicate, that North Afghanistan was one of the earliest places to domestic plants and animals.
The capital of Afghanistan was transferred from Kandahar to Kabul because of tribal opposition.
2001 Sep 9, In Afghanistan Ahmed Shah Masood (48), the opposition leader (Lion of Panjshir), was injured and a close aide killed from an explosion triggered by agents posing as journalists.
timelines.ws /countries/AFGHANISTAN.HTML   (14017 words)

  
 Chrenkoff
"Afghanistan remains one of just six countries in the world where polio is still endemic, although health experts believe that the National Immunization Days, led by the Government and its partners, have played a crucial role in reducing the number of new cases from 27 in 2000 to just three so far in 2004.
Despite security and infrastructure challenges, Afghanistan's private sector is slowly reviving from the bottom up: "When the Taliban regime collapsed in November 2001, Habib Gulzar quickly returned to Afghanistan to revive the trading empire built by his father and grandfather and crippled by two decades of war.
The last time I heard that sound in Afghanistan was in 1987: A patrol of Soviet Mi-24s were spitting gunfire at the house in which I was hiding with a mujahedeen convoy, in a village near Kandahar.
chrenkoff.blogspot.com /2004/10/good-news-from-afghanistan-part-5.html   (8038 words)

  
 UN Gives Green Light to Afghan Bank - Security Council - Global Policy Forum
The United Nations has given a green light for Afghanistan's central bank to operate again and ordered the freezing of assets of two Pakistani organizations which the United States says raised money for the al-Qaida terror network.
The committee removed the Da Afghanistan Bank, the country's central financial institution, from its list of groups and individuals whose assets have been ordered frozen because of links to Osama bin Laden's terrorist operation.
Allowing the central bank to resume normal operations is crucial for Afghanistan's new interim government and international efforts to start rebuilding the war-shattered nation.
www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/afgnstan/2002/0116bank.htm   (451 words)

  
 Afghanistan Online: Chronological History of Afghanistan--Part III
He was well on the road toward reunifying the whole of Afghanistan when the British, in collaboration with an ex-king (Shah Shuja), invade Afghanistan.
Da Afghanistan Bank (State Bank of Afghanistan) is incorporated.
Afghanistan's Parliament denounces the Durand Treaty and refuses to recognize the Durand line as a legal boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
www.afghan-web.com /history/chron/index3.html   (1028 words)

  
 Signing ceremony at Da Afghanistan Bank
Afghanistan's Central Bank Governor, Dr. Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady, signs an agreement for an $80,000 U.S. Agency for International Development grant as U.S. Ambassador Robert P. Finn (seated at table) looks on.
The grant will facilitate the transfer of money between Afghanistan and the international financial community and establish a communications link between the Bank's headquarters in Kabul and its offices in Herat, Kandahar, Nangarhar and Mazar-e-Sharif.
The USAID grant will facilitate the transfer of money between Afghanistan and the international financial community and establish a communications link between the Bank's headquarters in Kabul and its offices in Herat, Kandahar, Nangarhar and Mazar-e-Sharif.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/pix/events/b/sa/af/events/10541.htm   (304 words)

  
 Bank Information Center USA : Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund
The procedures expedited are those relating to the disclosure of project documentation and the preparation of environmental and social assessment-type documents normally prepared in the early stages of project processing.
ARTF guidelines state that for Afghanistan, environmental and social safeguard issues can be dealt with during implementation, but there are no mechanisms for ensuring that they are in fact reviewed and impacts mitigated.
If negative environmental and/or social impacts are expected, the ARTF administrator is supposed to issue a no-objection prior to project implementation, but this cuts communities out of the reconstruction and development process and puts their fate in the hands of one person or a small group of people.
www.bicusa.org /bicusa/issues/afghanistan_reconstruction_trust_fund/index.php   (1641 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com: Finance -> News -> Afghanistan clears $ 11.1 million IMF arrears   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The settlement of arrears to the IMF on February 26 is part of a co-ordinated plan, under which Afghanistan is clearing arrears to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the IMF, and the World Bank.
Afghanistan's arrears to the ADB were cleared on December 2, 2002, and arrears to the World Bank were cleared on February 24, 2003.
The technical assistance has focused on fiscal, monetary, and statistical areas, with an emphasis on capacity building in the Ministry of Finance, Da Afghanistan Bank, and the Central Statistical Office.
finance.indiainfo.com /news/2003/02/28/28afghan.html   (280 words)

  
 Terrorism - Afghanistan Economic Recovery
The central bank, called Da Afghanistan Bank, is in fact nothing more than a makeshift institution attempting to reconstruct a shattered monetary system now operating completely in cash.
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.
A socioeconomic transformation in Afghanistan is well within scope, but success depends as much on the world’s commitment to Afghanistan’s reconstruction as it does on the Afghan government’s ability to turn pledges into concrete progress.
www.cdi.org /terrorism/afghan-econ-pr.cfm   (1250 words)

  
 Press Release: Arrears Clearance by the Islamic State of Afghanistan
On February 26, 2003, the Islamic State of Afghanistan (Afghanistan) settled its overdue financial obligations to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The settlement of arrears to the IMF is part of a coordinated plan under which Afghanistan is clearing arrears to the Asian Development Bank, the IMF, and the World Bank.
Afghanistan's arrears to the Asian Development Bank were cleared on December 2, 2002, and arrears to the World Bank were cleared on February 24, 2003.
www.imf.org /external/np/sec/pr/2003/pr0323.htm   (277 words)

  
 Afgha.com - Inauguration Held for Afghanistan International Bank in Kabul
The ADB-backed Afghanistan International Bank (AIB) was officially opened at a ceremony attended by shareholders, management, and about 150 guests from the international and local business and diplomatic communities in Kabul.
AIB is being professionally managed by ING Government and Institutional Advisory Services B.V. Afghanistan's Vice President, Hedayat Amin Arsala, Dr. Anwar-ul-haq Ahadi, Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank (the Central Bank), and John W. Haye, the CEO of AIB, officiated over the ribbon cutting ceremony.
AIB aims to support the growth and development of Afghanistan's banking sector over the long term and contribute to sustainable growth of the economy.
www.afgha.com /?af=article&sid=44699&newlang=english   (385 words)

  
 Da Afghanistan Bank - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Da Afghanistan Bank - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Da Afghanistan Bank (د افغانستان بانک in Pashto) is the central bank of Afghanistan.
This page was last modified 12:00, 8 May 2005.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Afghan_Central_Bank   (91 words)

  
 Pakistan News PakTribune.Com
Bearing Point will assist USAID in upholding its mission to support the rapid transition of Afghanistan to a more stable and productive state through the promotion of democracy, rule of law and sustainable economic and social development that is responsive to citizens` needs.
Bearing Point will work specifically with the Ministry of Finance, Da Afghanistan Bank (the Central Bank), the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Communications, and will also interface with other government areas as the firm undertakes initiatives such as human resource and civil service development.
It also dovetails with a recent contract awarded by the Government of Afghanistan to strengthen the cash management capabilities in the Ministry of Finance and to develop strategies for treasury processes and human resources management.
www.paktribune.com /news/index.php?id=124435   (505 words)

  
 Sanctions Against Al Qaeda and the Taliban - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Resolution 1363 strengthens the enforcement of UN sanctions imposed on the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan.
Kofi Annan warns of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, but states that UN sanctions are not responsible for the current situation.
With the removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Security Council is now discussing the repeal of diplomatic, economic, and travel sanctions imposed on the country two years ago.
www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/indexafg.htm   (1468 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
In a major blow to Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime, Pakistan has frozen 146 bank accounts belonging to the militia’s leading ministers and officials along with three Afghan entities in order to comply with the UN resolutions.
The UN resolutions passed in 1999 and 2000 called for freezing of bank accounts and assets of 146 Taliban officials, 10 Arabs including Osama bin Laden, and three Afghan entities.
The JUI has been central to almost daily protests throughout the country protesting against threatened US military strikes on Afghanistan in a bid to flush out militant fugitive Osama bin Laden, sheltered by the Taliban and accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks on the USA.
www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011008/main7.htm   (585 words)

  
 Bank of England|Publications|News|2002|Financial Sanctions: Afghanistan (Taliban and Usama Bin Laden) 16.01.02
Bank of EnglandPublicationsNews2002Financial Sanctions: Afghanistan (Taliban and Usama Bin Laden) 16.01.02
Following a decision of the United Nations Security Council, the following entities have been removed from the consolidated list of entities/individuals associated with the above sanctions.
Da Afghanistan Bank and Ariana Afghan Airlines were initially included in Annex 1 to the Bank of England's Notice dated 3 May 2000 - Afghanistan (Taliban).
www.bankofengland.co.uk /publications/news/2002/010.htm   (113 words)

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