Minister of Transportation Omar Zakhilwal of Afghanistan

Zakhilwal was in India last week and addressed the representatives of the Indian industry at an interactive session hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI.

Head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) Mehdi Ghazanfari and Chairman of Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) Omar Zakhilwal expressed their governments' determination to expand bilateral trade and economic ties.

Zakhilwal has been a member of the Supreme Council of Da Afghanistan Bank (Afghanistan Central Bank) and teaches Economics at Kabul University.

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officials and community leaders from all over the country.

Zakhilwal said the government would do its best to encourage private investment in the war-ravaged countryKABUL: Afghanistan hopes to attract at least $1.

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Zakhilwal said the team would leave for Bishkek from Moscow.

5-2 billion worth of projects of building road, dam, silo, and residential units in Afghanistan, Zakhilwal said that Iran could participate in the projects.

Zakhilwal said the government would do its best to encourage private investment in the war-ravaged country.

Until he was a teenager, Zakhilwal lived with his family in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, halfway between Kabul and the mountainous eastern border with Pakistan.

In 1984, when Zakhilwal was 17, the family fled the country and found refuge in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Afghanistan was going through historical moments, Zakhilwal says now.