Panjsher governor’s spokesman Saifuddin Sacha told Bakhtar Agency that on the second day of the exhibition, a total of 6,872 carats of emeralds were sold through bidding in the presence of hundreds of domestic and foreign traders.
He added that businessmen and investors from different countries participated in this exhibition along with domestic businessmen, whose wide participation shows the increasing attention of the international markets on the precious stones of Afghanistan, especially Panjshir emeralds.
According to search, this tender was done transparently in the presence of officials of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum.
At the same time, Governor of Panjshir Alhaji Hafiz Muhammad Agha Hakeem asked domestic and foreign businessmen and investors to invest in the extraction and investment of emeralds and other precious stones of this province by observing the procedures of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum.
