Afghan Government Faces Cash Crunch, I.M.F. Says
Source: International Herald Tribune
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-02 13:32:29 -0700 | business-news
Afghanistan The Afghan government is supposed to cover less than half its own bills this year, yet achieving even that modest goal is proving an unexpected challenge, Afghan and Western officials said. A confidential assessment of Afghan finances by the...
Mobile Afghanistan: How a National Telecom Network Delivers Social Goods
Source: Forbes
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-02 06:33:28 -0700 | business-news
Accelerating entrepreneurial approaches and innovative solutions...He is also an independent consultant and adviser to the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, an international- development organization focused on Afghanistan...Nearly a decade ago we entered war-ravaged Afghanistan...
MPs seek explanation on CIA payments
Posted by: Hafsasikander
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-04 12:30:28 -0700 | business-news
Some senators on Tuesday asked President Hamid Karzai to take the parliament and the nation into confidence on the “ghost money” the CIA allegedly handed out to his office over the past decade.On Monday, the New York Times reported CIA...
The Real Reason Government Is Paying Down the National Debt
Source: Money Morning
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-30 14:56:54 -0700 | business-news
After six years of non-stop deficit spending that has added $8.2 trillion to the national debt, the U.S. Treasury has announced that it expects to reduce the country's debt by $35 billion this quarter. Given that national debt growth has...
A stylish noir
Source: The Hindu
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-30 06:28:03 -0700 | business-news
A retelling more than an epic Is how Samhita looks at the Ramayan. Set in a contemporary Ayodhya of malls and buildings with glass panes, Samhita Arni's The Missing Queen is a mythological thriller Samhita Arni's love for mythology and...
Congress Confronts Army Over Buying Helicopters That 'Can't Fly'
Source: BusinessInsider
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-29 04:54:05 -0700 | business-news
Top Army acquisition officials had some explaining to do Friday when a House Armed Services Committee member accused the service of buying helicopters that don't fly and withholding details about major field radio program. It appears the Army has been...
India, Russia agree on Afghan peace, but differ on drawdown
Source: The Hindu
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-28 12:52:58 -0700 | business-news
India and Russia have a strong convergence of perceptions of how to move forward [on Afghanistan], External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said after arriving here from Almaty. India and Russia agree that the process of peace and reconciliation must be...
The Heart Of Boston Makes A Mighty Rebound From Terrorist Attack
Source: BusinessInsider
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-28 05:42:34 -0700 | business-news
Oklahoma City rebuilt after Timothy McVeigh's 1995 truck bomb attack on the federal government. Atlanta moved on following anti-abortion activist Eric Rudolph's 1996 bombing of the Olympics. New York displayed staggering resiliency after the September 11 attacks.
Etched for posterity
Source: The Hindu
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-26 23:54:26 -0700 | business-news
If you see the entire design of the Red Fort it appears like an eight-sided flower, wrote Bashir-ud-Din in his magnum opus on Delhi, detailing the extensive work that went into its construction As promised in cityscape last week we...
The U.S. Is Still Spending Billions In Afghanistan, But No One Seems To Care
Source: BusinessInsider
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-26 17:31:59 -0700 | business-news
A Soviet soldier guards an Afghan road on May 15, 1988 Hard-fought gains in Afghanistan over the last decade are at risk of being squandered unless immediate action is taken to determine the fate of tens of billions of dollars...
Africa: Testimony of Administrator Rajiv Shah Before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee On ...
Source: All Africa
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-25 09:19:45 -0700 | business-news
Thank you Chairwoman Granger, Ranking Member Lowey, and members of the Committee...In his State of the Union address, President Obama called upon our nation to join with the world in ending extreme poverty in the next two decades. Today, we...
America's Drone War Depends On A Very Loose Definition Of 'Positive ID'
Source: BusinessInsider
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-24 14:57:38 -0700 | business-news
Martha McSally defended drone strikes before Congress on Monday by saying that all targets were " positively identified ." "Positive identification" (called "pid") is achieved by checking off the "rules of engagement" (called "roe") used to determine a likely enemy....
Should I Invest in Aggreko?
Source: The Motley Fool
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-23 12:51:36 -0700 | business-news
Aggreko's directors are expecting trading during 2013 to be tougher than that experienced last year. There'll be no London Olympics contract to bolster earnings, and military-sourced revenues will fall due to U.S. troop reductions in Afghanistan. Business is also likely...
Bedford-based iRobot's PackBot helped police during manhunt
Source: Boston Herald
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-23 11:35:00 -0700 | business-news
A Bedford company made the robot used in last week's manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The iRobot 510 PackBot was used by law enforcement to investigate a car driven by one of the suspects early...
Reorganized Beechcraft on a good foundation now,' says CEO
Source: Wichita Eagle
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-04-22 17:23:24 -0700 | business-news
Photos Bill Boisture, CEO of the newly reorganized Beechcraft Corp., thanked the aviation professionals gathered for Mondays Wichita Aero Club meeting. You went down a rough road with us this past year, Boisture told a packed room at the Doubletree...
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