{"id":81762,"date":"2016-04-13T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/business-community-lament-discrimination-in-obtaining-saarc-visas\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T09:41:16","slug":"business-community-lament-discrimination-in-obtaining-saarc-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/business-community-lament-discrimination-in-obtaining-saarc-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Business community lament discrimination in obtaining SAARC visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"440\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/4 April\/13  Apr\/ATIQ.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) lamented on Wednesday that Afghan traders have been&nbsp; facing discrimination in obtaining the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)&rsquo; countries&rsquo; visas.<\/p>\n<p>Atiqullah Nusrat, Chief Executive of the ACCI told a conference in Kabul that no single Afghan trader has been issued this special visa aimed at promoting trade ties among the member countries.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that this issue has hindered resolution of a number of transit trade and other related issues with the regional countries. Nusrat called upon the government to take steps in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Suraj Vaidya, a leading Nepali industrialist who recently took over as SAARC&rsquo;s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) presidency, said that Afghanistan offers attractive opportunities for investment. He noted that the raging insecurity has hindered SAARC members from investing here. He assured that the issues faced by the Afghan traders would be dealt with. He also urged upon the Kabul government to create enabling environment for economic progress in the country. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Muzamil Shinwari, deputy minister for trade, said that the government remains committed for economic development in the country. He assured the business community that their issues would be raised at the appropriate level for resolution.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) lamented on Wednesday that Afghan traders have been  facing discrimination in obtaining the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)\u2019 countries\u2019 visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}