{"id":17745,"date":"2024-01-23T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17745"},"modified":"2024-01-23T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:18:00","slug":"an-independent-agency-to-be-established-for-regulating-state-owned-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/01\/an-independent-agency-to-be-established-for-regulating-state-owned-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"An independent agency to be established for regulating state-owned companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">KABUL (SW) &#8211; Abdul-Ghani Baradar, Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of Afghanistan, revealed in a press conference Sunday that a new independent department is set to be established to oversee state-owned companies, by a decree from Hebatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the de-facto government of Afghanistan.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He emphasized that the primary objective behind creating this office is to foster unity and promote the growth of state-owned companies as a cohesive entity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;This is a prudent decision, and its responsibility does not end now; rather, the effectiveness of this decision will be proven when professional people are appointed to lead it,&#8221; Baradar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Officials from the leadership board of state-owned companies have expressed their support for the establishment of an independent office. They believe that this move will encourage healthy competition and act as a deterrent against hoarding within the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ahmad-Jan Bilal, the head of the leadership board of state-owned companies, says that this independent office will be established in the next six months. &#8220;State-owned companies play an essential role for economic progress and self-sufficiency and for providing services to people and supporting the national budget.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Abdul-Latif Nazari, Professional Deputy Minister of Economy for the Islamic Emirate, says that the establishment of an independent office can prevent work interference between different governmental institutions. &#8220;There is a need for a single and independent, strong, transparent and accountable administration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the officials of the Ministry of Finance, 43 state-owned companies worth 15 billion dollars are currently operating in Afghanistan in the sectors of public service supply, oil processing, cotton, and other agricultural items.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ENDS<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Abdul-Ghani Baradar, Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of Afghanistan, revealed in a press conference Sunday that a new independent department is set to be established to oversee state-owned companies, in accordance with a decree from Hebatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the de-facto government of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,16,981,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-report","category-economy","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":76,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17750,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745\/revisions\/17750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}