FiberCore Director Becomes Afghanistan Vice President

CHARLTON, Mass., July 12 -- Hedayet Amin-Arsala has resigned as a FiberCore director to become vice president of Afghanistan.

Amin-Arsala had been minister of finance and deputy chairman for the Afghanistan interim government until the recent appointment of the new government in Kabul.

FiberCore has nominated Zaid Siddig, a former director of the company, to fill the vacancy. The company makes single-mode and multimode optical fiber preforms and optical fiber for the telecommunications and data communications markets