Ivo Toniut Services Afghanistan

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said his country has hopes for greater engagement with the new U.S. Government and called on Joe Biden to follow up on the ongoing Afghan peace process and American troops withdrawal from Afghanistan. “I think they [Joe Biden Administration] should realise there is an opportunity in Afghanistan and they should persevere with what was initiated and not reverse things,” the Foreign Minister said.

A pine nut processing factory is under construction in the eastern province of Paktia in Afghanistan.  The factory has the capacity of processing more than 50,000 tons of pine nut a year and will create hundreds of jobs, and will provide the ground for improvement in the export of pine nuts to international markets. Afghanistan produces about 20,000 metric tons of pine nut a year, especially in the east of the country.