Afghanistan: Taliban govt warns Pakistan of dire implications if airstrikes are repeated
Apr 18, 2022, at 11:38 pm
Deputy Minister of Information and Culture and Chief Spokesperson of Taliban government Zabiullah Mujahid has condemned Pakistan's recent airstrikes on Khost and Kunar provinces and warned a repetition of similar episodes will have dire implications.
Afghanistan receives 32 mln USD in humanitarian cash aid
Apr 18, 2022, at 03:14 am
Kabul: Afghanistan received a batch of 32 million US dollars in humanitarian cash assistance on Sunday as the international community continued to provide humanitarian support to the post-war country, according to the country's central bank.
Afghanistan school closure: French MPs call for sanctions on Taliban officials
Apr 16, 2022, at 05:30 am
Paris: Over 50 French MPs have called to impose travel sanctions of Taliban government officials in response to the closing of girls' schools, restrictions imposed on women, and reported human rights abuses in Afghanistan, media reports said on Friday.
Afghanistan: Taliban bans students, teachers from wearing neckties in schools
Apr 16, 2022, at 05:27 am
Kabul: The Taliban government of Afghanistan has banned students and teachers in the country from wearing neckties in schools.
Sub-Saharan Africa under threat from multiple humanitarian crises
Apr 09, 2022, at 06:18 pm
New York: The number of hungry people in the Sahel and West Africa has quadrupled over the last three years, currently reaching 41 million, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Friday.
Pakistan-funded hospital in Afghanistan facing severe economic crisis
Apr 09, 2022, at 04:04 pm
Islamabad/Kabul: Jinnah Hospital, a Pakistan-funded health facility in Afghanistan, is facing serious administrative and operational issues due to the non-availability of funds, media reports said on Friday.
Blast in Kabul mosque leaves six hurt
Apr 06, 2022, at 09:48 pm
Kabul: A hand grenade explosion inside a mosque in Afghanistan's Kabul city on Wednesday left at least six people hurt, media reports said.
China agrees to accept credentials of Afghan diplomats: Taliban's acting foreign minister
Apr 05, 2022, at 07:10 pm
Kabul: A top minister of Afghanistan's Taliban-ruled government said China has agreed to accept the credentials of Afghan diplomats sent to Afghanistan’s embassy in China by the Taliban.
Apr 04, 2022, at 08:49 pm
Kabul/Beijing: Beijing has given a strong backing to the Taliban government in Afghanistan and stated that recognition of the group as the legitimate government of the war-torn nation would come “when conditions are ripe”.
Afghanistan: Taliban government bans poppy cultivation
Apr 03, 2022, at 11:06 pm
Kabul: Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hebatullah Akhundzada on Sunday issued a decree where he banned poppy cultivation as well as the use and trafficking of all types of illicit drugs.
Afghanistan: Explosion rocks stock exchange in Kabul, 10 hurt
Apr 03, 2022, at 10:13 pm
Kabul: An explosion rocked the stock exchange in Afghanistan's Kabul city on Sunday which left at least 10 people hurt, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Two explosions rock Herat, four civilians die
Apr 03, 2022, at 12:08 am
Kabul: At least four civilians died in two explosions rocked Afghanistan's Herat region on Friday, media reports said.
US govt to provide USD 204 million in assistance to Afghans
Apr 02, 2022, at 02:43 pm
Washington/Kabul: The United States has announced it will provide an additional humanitarian assistance of nearly $204 million to the people of Afghanistan.
Apr 02, 2022, at 02:31 pm
New York: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has regretted that girls’ education above 6th grade still remains suspended in Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
World can end ‘downward humanitarian spiral’ of Afghanistan
Apr 02, 2022, at 02:34 am
New York: As the world focuses its attention on the war in Ukraine, the UN reminded the international community on Thursday to remember Afghanistan as it kicked off a pledging conference to save the lives and livelihoods of those in the landlocked country. As the conference drew to a close, it was announced that a total amount of $2.44 billion had been promised.
Afghanistan: Explosion leaves five children dead
Apr 01, 2022, at 10:27 pm
Kabul: At least five children died as an explosive device left over from the past wars exploded in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Friday, media reports said.
Unknown gunmen abduct doctor in Afghanistan
Mar 30, 2022, at 06:36 pm
Kabul: A prominent Afghanistan doctor has been abducted by unknown gunmen on Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Saturday.
Afghanistan: Taliban stops broadcast of VOA, BBC
Mar 30, 2022, at 02:28 am
Kabul: The Taliban government of Afghanistan has directed private television stations in Afghanistan not to telecast Voice of America (VOA) and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) news programmes in the country, media reports said on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: Taliban prevents beardless government employees entry to Ministry of Finance office
Mar 30, 2022, at 02:16 am
Kabul: The Taliban members recently prevented beardless government employees from entering the Ministry of Finance building, media reports said.
Afghanistan Crisis: Taliban arrests three journalists in Kandahar
Mar 29, 2022, at 02:59 pm
Kabul: Afghanistan Journalists Union has said the Taliban government arrested three journalists of the local Milat Ghag radio station in the southeastern Kandahar province of the violence-hit country.
Mar 29, 2022, at 02:18 pm
Kabul: Supreme leader of the Taliban Mullah Hebtullah Akhundzada has directed Afghanistan's military officials not to recruit teenage members to their ranking.
Afghanistan: Journalist detained by Taliban
Mar 29, 2022, at 04:34 am
Kabul: Family of a local journalist has claimed that Taliban forces have detained him on Saturday due to unknown reasons.
Afghanistan: Private schools, universities lose students this academic year
Mar 28, 2022, at 10:38 pm
Kabul: Afghanistan's private school and university owners in Kabul city have complained that they have lost 60 percent of their students as the new educational year commenced recently.
Afghanistan: Women can only enter parks for three days in a week, directs Taliban
Mar 28, 2022, at 01:10 am
Kabul: The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issued yet another bizarre diktat by which women can only go to parks three days a week while men are given four days in the country.
Taliban will keep finding excuses to stop girls from learning in Afghanistan: Malala Yousafzai
Mar 27, 2022, at 09:31 pm
Kabul: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has criticised the Taliban government of Afghanistan and said the group will try to find excuses to stop girls from learning.
Afghanistan: Women protest against Taliban's decision to ban girls from going to school
Mar 26, 2022, at 10:50 pm
Kabul: A small group of women demonstrated in Kabul city on Saturday against Taliban regime's decision to ban teenage girls from going to schools.
Afghanistan: Multiple attackers stab 80-year-ol man to death
Mar 25, 2022, at 08:19 pm
Kabul: Multiple attackers stabbed to death a 80-year-old man in Afghanistan's 16th police district in eastern Kabul, media reports said on Friday.
Mar 25, 2022, at 07:01 pm
Kabul: Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, USA and several other nations condemned the Taliban’s decision not to re-open secondary schools to Afghan girls.
Taliban’s backtracking on girls’ education, ‘deeply damaging’
Mar 25, 2022, at 04:17 pm
New York: Following a U-turn over re-opening girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the UN human rights chief shared her “profound frustration and disappointment” that six months after the Taliban seized power, high school girls have yet to return to the classroom.
Taliban govt removes Nawruz holiday from Afghanistan's calendar
Mar 24, 2022, at 04:14 am
Kabul: Taliban government in Afghanistan has removed Navroz or Nowruz holiday from the Afghan calendar, media reports said.