Airlines

• Ariana Afghan Airlines
  Ariana Afghan Airlines
  Ariana Afghan Airlines Co. Ltd. is the oldest and the national airline of Afghanistan, and is currently the largest Afghan airline, headquartered in Kabul...
  
    (Government-owned & National Airline)
• Kam Air
  Kam Air
  Kam Air is an airline headquartered in the Kabul Business Centre in Shah-e-Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan. It operates scheduled domestic passenger services and international services to the Middle East and several Asian republics...
  
  
• Khyber Afghan Airlines
  Khyber Afghan Airlines
  Khyber Afghan Airlines is a cargo airline based in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, with its hub at Jalalabad Airport....
  
   (Cargo
  Cargo
  Cargo is goods or produce transported, generally for commercial gain, by ship, aircraft, train, van or truck. In modern times, containers are used in most intermodal long-haul cargo transport.-Marine:...
  
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• Pamir Airways
• Safi Airways
  Safi Airways
  Safi Airways Co. is an Afghan airline. The airline Safi Airways - IATA-Code 4Q - was founded in 2006 by Abdul Qudos Safi, an Afghan Businessman...
  
  
• Afghan Defense Ministry
  Afghan Defense Ministry
  The Afghan Ministry of Defense is an organ of the Central Government of Afghanistan, overseeing the entire military of Afghanistan. , it is headed by Abdul Rahim Wardak, a former mujahid who also received some military training in the United States...
  
   (Military Personnel and armament transport program run by MoD]

Banking, financial services and insurance

• Afghanistan International Bank
  Afghanistan International Bank
  Afghanistan International Bank is a local commercial bank in Afghanistan, with its head office in Kabul. The bank has seven branch offices in the major cities of the country....
  
   (Powered by ING Group
  ING Group
  The ING Group is a global financial institution offering retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance services. ING is the Dutch member of the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks, a cooperative consortium of 11 prominent European banks...
  
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• Standard Chartered Bank
  Standard Chartered Bank
  Standard Chartered PLC is a multinational financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom with operations in more than seventy countries...
  
  
• Bank Alfalah
  Bank Alfalah
  Bank Alfalah Limited is a private bank in Pakistan owned by the Abu Dhabi Group. Bank Alfalah was incorporated on June 21, 1992 as a public limited company under the Companies Ordinance 1984. Its banking operations commenced from November 1, 1992...
  
   (Owned by Abu Dhabi Group)
• Habib Bank
• Azizi Bank
  Azizi Bank
  Azizi Bank is the name of a commercial bank in Afghanistan, which has its main branch in Kabul. It also has branches in many provinces of the country. The bank opened in June 2005 and is named after its chairman, Haji Ali Akbar Zhawandai...
  
  
• Western Union
  Western Union
  The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is in Englewood, Colorado. Up until 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S...
  
  
• SWIFT
  Swift
  The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds. They are superficially similar to swallows, but are actually not closely related to passerine species at all; swifts are in the separate order Apodiformes, which they share with hummingbirds...
  
  
• Moneygram
  MoneyGram
  MoneyGram International, Inc. is a US-based, Global Money transfer company, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It has Global Operations Centers in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota and Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Global Call Center Operations in Denver, Colorado and regional and local offices around the...
  
  
• BRAC Bank
  BRAC Bank
  BRAC Bank is the last organization to have received a commercial banking license from Bangladesh Bank, making it the youngest private commercial bank in Bangladesh. Its headquarters are based in the capital Dhaka...
  
    (Attached to BRAC (NGO)
  BRAC (NGO)
  BRAC, based in Bangladesh, is the world's largest non-governmental development organization. Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 soon after the independence of Bangladesh, BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh, with over 7 million microfinance group members, 37,500 non-formal...
  
   Afghanistan)
• Kabul Bank
  Kabul Bank
  Kabul Bank is a commercial bank in Afghanistan, with its main branch in the capital of Kabul. Established in 2004, it is the main bank used to pay the salaries of the army and security forces. The bank provides facilities to maintain accounts in Current, Savings Bank and Fixed Deposits; and offers...
  
  
• Pashtany Bank
  Pashtany Bank
  Pashtany Bank is the firm controlled by the Afghan government that controls the Central Bank of Afghanistan, the Afghan national insurance company and Ariana Afghan Airlines. It was established in 1954 to manage the Da Afghanistan Bank, the central bank of Afghanistan.Hayat Dayani is the President...
  
   - National Afghan Corporation (Government-owned)
• Maiwand Bank -just banking.(private-owned).
• Bakhtan money transfer service company licensed by Afghanistan central Bank, private sector.

International Media Representatives

• Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
  
• CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
  
• Geo TV
  Geo TV
  Geo TV or Geo Television is a Pakistani television network, founded by Mr. Mir Shakil ur Rehman in May 2002 and owned by Independent Media Corporation. The channel began test transmission on 14 August 2002, with regular transmission beginning 1 October 2002...
  
  
• BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
  
• National Geographic
• New York Times
• Washington Post
• ABC News
  ABC News
  ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
  
  
• Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  

News Agencies

• Pajhwok Afghan News
  Pajhwok Afghan News
  Pajhwok Afghan News is a news agency established in March 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. It is Afghanistan's largest independent news service, providing broad-based coverage of news in English, Pashto and Dari...
  
  
• Bakhtar News Agency
  Bakhtar News Agency
  Bakhtar News Agency is the official state news agency of the Afghan government, based in Kabul. The agency is a major source of news for all media in Afghanistan, gathering domestic and international news and providing information to outlets....
  
   (Government-owned, under control of the RTV)

Satellite Telephony Networks

• Thuraya
  Thuraya
  Thuraya , the Arabic name of the Pleiades, is a regional satellite phone provider. Its coverage area is most of Europe, the Middle East, North, Central and East Africa, Asia and Australia....
  
   (Dubai based, active in Afghanistan]]
• Inmarsat
  Inmarsat
  Inmarsat plc is a British satellite telecommunications company, offering global, mobile services. It provides telephony and data services to users worldwide, via portable or mobile terminals which communicate to ground stations through eleven geostationary telecommunications satellites...
  
   (US Based, active in Afghanistan]]

Telecommunications and internet service providers

• Afghan Telecom
  Afghan Telecom
  Afghan Telecom is a telecom company offering fixed line, wireless voice and data services under a 25 year license in Afghanistan. The company was previously government owned and operated until 2005 when the Afghan Ministry of Communications spun it off into a private entity. In 2008, investors are...
  
  
• AWCC
  Afghan Wireless
  Afghan Wireless is a cellular network provider in Afghanistan which was launched on 13 November 2002 by Ehsan Bayat. It is a joint venture business between Telephone Systems International in the United States and the Afghan Ministry of Communications. Afghan Wireless signed a 15 year-contract with...
  
  
• ARYAN ICT Solutions
• Danesh Net
  Danesh Net
  Danesh Net is an Internet Service Provider, based in Nimroz, Afghanistan Founded in 2005. Danesh Net is the first Private ISP in Nimroz, providing a full range of Internet services for both residential and business customers.-Additional information:...
  
   (Activities limited to Nimroz Province only)
• Etisalat
  Etisalat
  Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, branded trade name Etisalat is a UAE based telecommunications services provider, currently operating in 18 countries across Asia, the Middle East and Africa...
  
  
• Roshan
  Roshan (telco)
  Roshan is Afghanistan's leading telecommunications provider, serving approximately 3.5 million active subscribers.In January 2003, Roshan was awarded the second GSM license in Afghanistan at a time when there was virtually no telecommunications infrastructure in place; national calls were...
  
   (Telecom Development Company Afghanistan
  Telecom Development Company Afghanistan
  Telecom Development Company Afghanistan is a telecommunications consortium in Afghanistan. Its projects include Roshan , the brand name for their GSM services. The consortium is led by Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development and consists of Monaco Telecom International and TeliaSonera....
  
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• MTN-Areeba
• Ts 2
  Ts 2
  TS 2 is an Internet Provider for US Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of all active customers are Polish and US Army soldiers, but TS 2 solutions have been implemented also for private companies and organizations. TS 2' network in Iraq and Afghanistan has over 15 thousand military users...
  
  
• Neda
  Neda
  Neda may refer to:Events* The death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the 2009 Iranian election protests** NedaNet, a project to protect the privacy of the protestors, named in her honor.People* Neda Arneric, Serbian actress...
  
  
• SkyGate
• Western Kimia System

Media Productions

• Arya Production (An attache of Tolo TV
  Tolo TV
  Tolo TV , is a television station, being one of the first commercial ones to operate in Afghanistan. Launched in October 2004 by MOBY Group, it laid the foundations for an accessible media outlet offering a big library of shows...
  
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• Tamana
  Tamana
  Tamana is the smallest island in the Gilbert Islands. It is accessible both by boat and by air with Air Kiribati and Coral Sun Airways -References:* from the Navy Art Gallery...
  
   Production (An attache of Ariana TV
  Ariana TV
  For the American-based Afghan television channel, see Ariana AfghanistanAriana TV, officially shortened as ATN, is a private television network based in Kabul, Afghanistan, that was launched on 17 August 2005. Ariana TV is owned by an Afghan-American called Ehsan Bayat, who also owns AWCC...
  
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See also

• Economy of Afghanistan
  Economy of Afghanistan
  The economy of Afghanistan has improved significantly since 2002 due to the infusion of multi-billion dollars in international assistance and investments, as well as remittances from Afghan expats. It is also due to dramatic improvements in agricultural production and the end of a four-year drought...
  
  
• Afghanistan
  Afghanistan
  Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
  
  
• Presidency of Hamid Karzai
• Operation Enduring Freedom
• Coalition Casualties in Afghanistan
  Coalition casualties in Afghanistan
  As of November 30, 2011, there have been 2,744 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of ongoing coalition operations since the invasion in 2001. In this total, the American figure is for deaths "In and Around Afghanistan" which, as defined by the U.S...