Outlook Afghanistan: Da Afghanistan Bank faces twin tasks

An Afghan money changer counts Afghani banknotes at an exchange market in Ghazni province, eastern Afghanistan, April 4, 2019. Governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan Khalil Sediq has been trying to bring up to 90 percent of the country's some 30 million population into formal banking, a local newspaper said Wednesday. "To this end, the central bank, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), faces the twin tasks of modernizing the country's banking infrastructure and attempting to bring almost 90 percent of the population into formal banking for the first time," the Outlook Afghanistan reported. (Xinhua/Sayed Mominzadah)