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Afghanistan is enthusiastic about signing a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Pakistan, says a prime ministerial aide.

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KABUL - Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) of-ficials say all systems of the ministry have been comput-erized to ensure transpar-ency, accountability, speedy administration and reduce corruption.They say they have recently replaced the old and tradi-tional system of administra-tion and management with a modern and technology based one.Abdul Qadir Mutfa, MoMP spokesman, told Pajhwok

KABUL - The seizure of drugs concealed in commercial con-signments from Afghanistan to India has created problems for Afghan traders.Indian police captured several drug smugglers, including two Afghans -- this last July, for trafficking heroin worth bil-lions of rupees to that country.Afghan traders say their goods were thoroughly searched be-fore their entry into India and the time-consuming process damages their commodities.A trader, Mujahid Afghan, told Pajhwok Afghan News that ex-ports to India -- both through land routes and by air -- were minutely checked.Afghanistan and India should jointly resolve the problem to avoid damage to commercial links between the two coun-tries, he suggested.Another Afghan entrepreneur, who wished to go unnamed, said a man from Afghanistan was detained in connection with drug smuggling to India. The detainee was not a busi-nessman but smuggled narcot-ics in the garb of exporters to India.Some circles inside the coun-try aid smugglers and certain neighbours did not want Af-ghanistan to have good rela-

ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan is enthusiastic about signing a Pref-erential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Pakistan, says a prime min-isterial aide.President Ashraf Ghani, during his recent visit to Pakistan, had signaled his government’s readi-ness to ink the proposed accord, the advisor said.In an interview published on Wednesday, Adviser to Prime

Minister on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood said he would visit Kabul on September 4.During the two-day trip, he will have detailed discussions with the Afghan authorities on remov-ing hurdles to bilateral trade be-tween the neighbours.Dawood will meet Ghani, whose administration recently urged Pa-kistan to open the Wagha border for trade between Afghanistan

Drug Smuggling Hits Afghan Exports to India

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and India.“We told them the meeting is bi-lateral, not trilateral, and it should be confined to (discussions) on bi-lateral trade issues,” the advisor told The News.Pak-Afghan Transit Trade issues would also figure at his meetings with Afghan officials in Kabul, the advisor said, hoping for pro-gress in efforts to boost bilateral trade. (Pajhwok)

KABUL - Ace spinner Rashid Khan will lead Afghanistan’s new-look squad for a one-off Test and the T20 series in Bangladesh, says the game’s regulatory body. The leggie replaces Gulbadin Naib, who had captained Afghanistan in the ICC World Cup. In the mega event, the national side lost all their matches.The T20 tri-series would also feature Zimbabwe, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) announced on Tuesday.Flanked by selection committee mem-ber Mujahid Zadran,, chief selector Andy Moles named the teams at the ACB headquarters in Kabul.The Test team is set to leave for Abu Dhabi today (Wednesday) for a train-ing camp before travelling to Bangla-desh on August 30 to play the solitary Test against the hosts from September 5-9.Afghanistan would play their first match of the triangular series, on Sep-tember 14 against Zimbabwe, second against ...(More on P4)...(9)

Afghan News that the min-istry had prepared the plan of replacing the traditional system to electronic one three years ago for better performance and reducing corruption.He said the ministry had been performing only basic activities through technol-ogy during the last three years due to lack of a clear roadmap, problems in the legal and organizational structure of the ministry as well ...(More on P4)...(8)

Kabul Ready for Signing PTA

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tions with India, he alleged.“Indian police carefully check our goods, tear apart our cartons and leave our goods including fresh fruits dam-aged. We have to re-arrange the cartons. Most of the time, we cannot find new packages there,” he explained.Fruit merchants from Kanda-har also spoke of mounting problems in exports after an Afghan named Ahmad Shah was arrested in connection with smuggling heroin to In-dia.Eng. Abdul Baqi Bina, deputy head of the Kandahar cham-ber of commerce, confirmed

Shah was not an exported and that he had recently started busi-ness.Many traders have a business background of 40 or 50 years, having inherited trade from their fathers, he added.Shah recently began exports of goods, probably in an effort to smuggle narcotics abroad, the official believed.The suspect had placed heroin in packages of cum-in seeds for smuggling to India, he charged, the man was from west-ern Herat province.“Problems for Afghan traders have increased af-ter this case because Indian police now check all goods from ...(More on P4)...(7)