Watan Group
| Watan Group | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Privately owned |
| founding | 2005 |
| Seat | Kabul , Afghanistan |
| management | Ahmad Rateb Popal Ahmad Rashid Popal |
| Number of employees | 500-1000 |
| Branch | Conglomerate |
| Website | www.watan-group.com |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
The Watan Group is an Afghan group of companies that offers telecommunications, logistics and security services and is one of the largest companies in Afghanistan .
Companies
The Watan Group is owned by Ahmad Rateb Ratib Popal and his brother Ahmad Rashid Popal , both cousins of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and part of a politically influential Pashtun family. Both Popal brothers are former mujahideen and were individually indicted in the US for heroin smuggling. Ratib Popal served a prison sentence from 1989 to 1997.
The Watan Group has six subsidiaries: Watan Telecom, Watan Risk Management, Watan Oil & Gas, Ehsaan Construction, Sino-Afghan Steel and AMP Lohistics, as well as offices in Kabul, Kandahar , Jalalabad , Herat and Mazar-e Sharif .
Watan Risk Management
The subsidiary Watan Risk Management accompanies NATO replenishment deliveries as PMC on the Kabul - Kandahar route and regularly has deaths to complain about.
Watan Telecom
In 2005 Watan Telecom received the smaller (40%) of two telecommunications licenses valid until 2020 for Afghanistan for USD 30 million . Watan Telecom was part of a consortium made up of Al Houbi Telecom with Saudi Arabia , as well as the North American companies Cellular One and Globecom .
Watan Oil & Gas
In 2011, CNPCI founded Watan Oil and Gas Afghanistan Ltd. the CNPCI Watan energy Afghanistan (CNPCIW) as a joint venture with the China National Petroleum Corp. International . On December 26, 2011, the Council of Ministers of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan approved the development of three oil fields in the Amu-Darya Basin in northern Afghanistan in the region around the city of Mazar-e Sharif . In the previous tender on June 30th, CNPCIW offered 15% license fees and was awarded the contract. As part of the contract based on this with the Afghan Ministry of Mining of December 28, 2011, the company, together with the Kashkari oil field and the Angot oil field, committed itself to five oil fields between 150,000 in the first and 1.4 million barrels of oil from the fifth year onwards to promote. In 2011, the US Geological Survey (USGS) estimated the amounts of undiscovered and recoverable petroleum resources for the Amu Darya Basin at 962 million barrels of oil, 1.5 trillion cubic meters of natural gas and 582 million barrels of liquefied gas .
Web links
- Biography of Ahmad Popal. In: Afghan Biographies. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Watan Group. In: CrunchBase. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
- ^ Transparency International : Private Military and Security Companies. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Discussion paper on the 52nd Munich Security Conference . Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 26, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ How the US Funds the Taliban. In: The Nation. November 11, 2009, accessed May 26, 2016 .
- ↑ FAZ: A hospital at war
- ^ Investcom, Watan Win Afghanistan Mobile Telecom Licenses. In: Kathmandu Post. September 14, 2009, accessed May 26, 2016 .
- ^ CNPC Begins Exploration in Afghanistan. In: The Oriental Pro-Energy Consulting Organization. September 14, 2009, archived from the original on May 26, 2016 ; accessed on May 26, 2016 .
- ↑ CNPC International Reach Agreement For Amu Darya Oil Tender. In: Ministry of Mines and Petroleum. March 23, 2012, accessed May 26, 2016 .