Saudi Arabia and Gulf states are friends of Pakistan ,please be care full next putting this type of false statement , your boys are flying their fighter planes and recently Saudia and Pakistan conducted joint army excercises.
Funniest thing is that Most here ignore is Some one is benefitting from all this in our country .
Escalating violence, lingering political uncertainty and rampant corruption may prompt a massive flee of capital from Afghanistan, as many Afghan business owners have already started moving their assets to safer economies in the Gulf.
According to Nurullah Delawari, the head of the Investment Support Agency of Afghanistan (ISA), a total of $5.3bn has been invested by the private sector in Afghanistan in the past seven years, of which only 27 per cent was foreign investment.
Delawari says that foreign investment has diminished due to deteriorating security conditions, but with over 60 per cent of private investment stemming from Afghan entrepreneurs, recent reports of an 'exodus' pose a far graver threat to the already shaky reconstruction process.
At an economic cooperation conference in Islamabad last May, Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, said that rising violence targeting trade threatened to harm economic development
Karzai listed other issues that could stall progress, such as insufficient infrastructure and inconsistent policies, but he stopped short of naming pervasive corruption, his government's inability to regulate the private sector and the overarching weakness of the rule of law as other obstacles to investment in his country.
In its 2008 report, Transparency International, a global corruption watchdog, ranked Afghanistan as the fifth most corrupt state in the world.
Disgruntled business owners have also charged that those with political power have established their dominance in the business field, making it difficult for anyone outside of the power structure to be successful.
Dubai bound <-----Where ths money is going
Mohammad Fahim Hashimi is an Afghan entrepreneur who made his fortune in the past five years. Starting out as an interpreter at a US military base, he then used his strong business sense to secure supplies contracts from the US military.
Today his business interests include logistics, cargo, an airline and a TV channel. But Hashimi admits that he has finally diverted his capital to Dubai.
"While the day-to-day operations of most businesses are continuing, no major new investment is being made," he says. He adds that banks have put a temporary freeze on granting approvals for new loans or even credit extensions, which has perpetuated the stagnation.
When Seema Ghani, the managing director of the Baawar Consulting Group, arrived in Kabul in 2003 she was full of hope but fast became a victim of the system.
"With no rule of law in the country, my losses began in 2003 with my first business when a corrupt man as my partner stole money and the system supported him. I lost hundreds of thousands of dollars which was a lot in those days," says Ghani, who was living in London during the Taliban's rule.
Ghani went on to start up her management consultancy firm. Her gravest challenge now, she says, is endemic corruption.
"I have to pay to get projects from the government and mainly from the US companies. They are the biggest implementers of the USAID projects in this country," she says, adding that bribery is against her principles and as such, she loses out on many projects.
Hashimi contends that the anti-corruption fight that threatens local business should not be limited to tackling bribery.
"It [should] cover proper law enforcement and a clean judicial system. It contains no protection for friends and relatives of influential people, no preferential treatment in granting contracts or monopolising certain lucrative sectors."
Al Jazeera English - Focus - Business flees Afghan instability
How come your law-maker suddenly become so active to trace the other mode of transfers.
I wounder why they didn't link Oklahoma City bombing
