Afghanistan
Pakistan work to establish modern financial system
FEATURE - As Afghanistan rebuilds, industrialized nations around the world are paying close attention to attempts by neighboring Pakistan to modernize its financial system, reports Nikkei Weekly.
Afghanistan's accounting nightmare
FEATURE - Deep in the vaults of Afghanistan's central bank is what looks like a mountain of money - bundles of notes piled as high as a man fill a small room.
Afghan currency 'expected to stabilise'
AFGHANISTAN - The Afghan currency, the Afghani, has seen huge changes in value over the last few months.
Chaos in Kabul amid currency rumours
AFGHANISTAN - Afghanistan's currency markets have been plunged into chaos, amid reports that the Afghani could be abandoned temporarily for the dollar.
Bank of England - News Release
NEWS RELEASE - Financial Sanctions: Afghanistan (Taliban and Usama Bin Laden), 28 January 2002.
IMF team says dollar best currency for Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN - A team of International Monetary Fund and World Bank experts visiting Afghanistan said on Tuesday it would make sense for the country to switch to the U.S. dollar in the short term.
Afghan banker picks up pieces of a ruined system
FEATURE - Abdul Qadir Fitrat, possibly the world's youngest central bank governor at 38, has just taken up perhaps the world's most hair-raising central bank challenge - restoring Afghanistan's ruined financial system.
Japan to unfreeze deposits of Afghan central bank
AFGHANISTAN - The Japanese government said Tuesday it will unfreeze the 77 million yen in deposits held in Japan by Afghanistan's central bank in line with the inauguration of an interim administration in the war-torn country.
Better not bank on Afghani
AFGHANISTAN - Abdul Qadeer Fitrat has been appointed acting governor of Da Afghanistan Bank.
Pakistan wins official debt deal
PAKISTAN - Pakistan yesterday secured an unprecedented debt restructuring deal from the Paris Club of official creditors in recognition of its economic reforms and its role in the war in Afghanistan.
IMF approves $1.3bn loan to Pakistan
US - The International Monetary Fund has approved a $1.3bn loan for Pakistan, to help it battle poverty and offset the economic impact of the war in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's central banker invited home
AFGHANISTAN - Afghanistan's former central banker has been asked by the leader of the Northern Alliance to return to run the country's monetary policy.
Afghan central bank - little left but dollar bills
ARTICLE - A dingy bank vault in the center of this destitute, dust-smudged capital holds the foreign-currency reserves of Afghanistan: $90,000, much of it in single dollar bills. The cash, all that remains of Afghanistan's plundered treasury, was simply…
World's most unusual central bank
AFGHANISTAN - This is no ordinary central bank. The currency reserves of the Northern Alliance - large wads of Afghani notes that arrive from neighbouring Tajikistan - are kept in a broom cupboard in a mud-walled hut in the dusty Afghan town of Khoja…
Vietnam's gold prices soar again after US strikes
VIETNAM - Local gold prices shot up to VND5.3 million a tael (37.5 grammes) on Monday morning before settling down to VND5.27 million a tael in the afternoon following the US-led air strikes on Afghanistan.
Afghanistan currency strengthens
AFGHANISTAN - Money changers in Kabul have reported that the national currency of Afghanistan has strengthened, after losing 10% of its value in the initial aftermath of the attacks on America.
Afghan economy fights for survival
ARTICLE - The threat of US military action against Afghanistan looks set to devastate the livelihood of its people. The economy barely functions, with no recognisable central bank, leaving Afghans to fend for themselves.
Pakistan cbank concerned Afghans using rupee-FT
PAKISTAN - A sharp rise in the amount of Pakistani rupee in circulation has prompted Pakistan's central bank to begin an inquiry into the increasing use of the currency in neighboring Afghanistan, senior bank officials said on Mar 28, 2001, according to…