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Afghan returnees hope for sweet returns from buzzing business by admin in Business visit site

If there's one area in Afghanistan's patriarchal society where females are valued highly, it is beekeeping. That seems apt considering that the female bee dominates the hive – a fact which may have surprised some 30 male students listening intently to a recent lecture by agronomist Abdullah Ahad Qarashi in this eastern district.

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Siemens to build mobile phone network in Kabul by in Business visit site

Germany's Siemens (SIEGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) has won a deal to build a mobile phone network in Kabul, the capital of war-torn Afghanistan, the company said on Thursday. The industrial conglomerate said it would build a third-generation (3G) W-CDMA network and supply second-generation equipment to the Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC), the country's first mobile phone company.

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Pakistan Denies Indian Report on Trade by admin in Business visit site

Pakistan on Wednesday said it wouldn't oppose neighbor Afghanistan joining a regional free trade agreement, denying a report in the Indian press that it wanted to shut Kabul out.

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Kabul to join Saarc in April by admin in Business visit site

Afghanistan will join the south Asian economic grouping at its next summit meeting in New Delhi in April, India’s foreign secretary said on Wednesday. The decision was formalised at a conference of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) foreign ministers which ended in Dhaka on Wednesday, Shyam Saran said.