Afghanistan gets new currency

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Mon Oct 7 18:17:23 PDT 2002


The Economic Times

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 08, 2002

The anniversary issue: Afghanistan gets new currency

REUTERS

KABUL: Afghanistan's interim government marked the first anniversary of US air strikes that brought it to power by issuing new banknotes on Monday, aimed at reasserting central control over a war-ravaged economy.

Hundreds of people jostled to change large bundles of old afghanis for new lower-denomination notes at Kabul's open air money market and the big influx quickly weakened the currency against the dollar

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