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Pak helps rebuild highway to Afghanistan by admin in Business visit site

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has helped neighbour Afghanistan rebuild the 75-km Torkham-Jalalabad highway at a cost of Rs 2 billion ($33 million) and says it has completed 95 percent of the task two months before deadline. Although there are many entry points, this highway, which was but a rundown road, is the key entry from Afghanistan to Pakistan via the Khyber Pass and witnesses daily movement of goods and travellers. The News quoting a PTV report said funds for the project were pr...

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Top Kabul restaurant takes Afghan youngsters off the streets - Yahoo! News by admin in Business visit site

KABUL (AFP) - The head waiter at one of the most popular restaurants in Kabul gently encourages his young apprentice who is still a little clumsy as he gets to grips with the art of fine dining French style.

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Japan to give 500 million dollars for Afghanistan's counternarcotic efforts - MSN-Mainichi Daily News by admin in Business visit site

apan decided Tuesday to extend emergency grant aid totaling 5 million dollars to the United Nations Development Program to assist Afghanistan's counternarcotics efforts. The money will be chiefly used to raise alternative crops for poppies, from which opium is made. Opium made in Afghanistan accounts for 87 percent of the world's total production. It is smuggled into other central Asian nations and Europe.