KABUL: The Inter-Ministerial Committee reviewed a proposal to build an underground commercial market on Kabul Municipality-owned land, from Sepahi Gumnam Square to Maiwand Road and the Pul-e-Yak-Pisagi area of the capital.
The Deputy Prime Minister’s Office for Economic Affairs, said in a statement that the meeting instructed the designated committee to complete the project’s social and traffic impact studies and submit them to the Investment Committee.
The meeting also reviewed a private-sector investment proposal to explore, extract, and process phosphate, copper, and zinc. Under the proposal, phosphate would be used to produce chemical fertilisers, while copper would be used to manufacture electrical cables.
The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has been tasked with evaluating the proposal and submitting a report to the committee.