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Kabul (Pajhwok): Ahmadyar Gharnai, an Afghan investor who opened a liquefied gas production and distribution company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week, is keen to build a lapis lazuli processing plant in Afghanistan.
Gharnai is a resident of Surkhrod district in eastern Nangarhar province and graduated from Kabul University’s Faculty of Engineering.
Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News in an interview, the investor said he opened the gas company in Ajman’s Al Jurf industrial area last week. He said the gas company is the first facility of its kind in the UAE, with a total capacity of nearly 400,000 kilograms per day.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Director of Ports and Customs, Yousef Al Nuaimi, Director of Protocol and Hospitality, Ahmed Ibrahim Al Ghamlasi, Chief of Office of the Crown Prince of Ajman, and several local government department heads and senior officials.
The company’s building, which covers an area of 50,000 square meters, was completed in a year and a half at a cost of AED 70 million.
The company is an integrated industrial and commercial complex for the production and distribution of LNG that meets the highest relevant standards.
Gharnai, who is the company’s chief executive, said the project aims to provide a range of public benefits, including the provision of high-quality products accredited by professional laboratories that meet the best health and environmental standards.
He added that the facility has an outstanding team of professionals carefully selected from among the most qualified people specializing in liquefied gas.
Gharnai said there are currently 175 people, mostly Afghans, working in his company and he intends to provide jobs to more Afghans.
In addition to the UAE, he said, he has also invested in logistics and construction in Afghanistan, Germany, Australia and Turkey.
Hard work is the reason for his success, the investor said, and he has actually started working with the Islamic emirate in Afghanistan. His company Harirud was involved in the construction of the internal operational part of Kabul International Airport.
He plans to set up a large lapis lazuli processing company in Afghanistan in the near future, and has said he will make large investments in Afghanistan if the caretaker government clears the way for him.
Gharnai, who last arrived in Afghanistan five months ago, said high taxes were the biggest problem facing investors in the country.
The caretaker government has pledged to provide all possible facilities, repeatedly asking investors to invest in Afghanistan.
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