It's quite embarrassing because the exchange is supposed to mirror the reality of the economy. We have benefited from the distortion of the market.

ZSE is not owned by anyone at the moment but we will be expanding our shareholding by issuing out shares to the public. Listing the ZSE is also a possibility like the case with the Australia and New York stock exchanges.

We will be able to say to shareholders we need money for such a project.

The nomination committee to appoint commissioners has been put in place but that is not public information yet.

The private sector and foreign direct investments will fuel the Afghan economy, and the presence of an ad agency is often the first thing to attract these investments.

The reality is that the economy is in great shape. It's created lots of good jobs?not bad jobs. We haven't created a whole bunch of hamburger flipping jobs.