Afghanistan Times

KABUL – Saudi Arabia has reaffirmed its $500 million commitment to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to help eliminate polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. The funding, initially pledged in April 2024, aims to eradicate wild polio in the two countries—where the disease …

KABUL – Radio Begum, Afghanistan’s women-led radio station, is set to return to the airwaves after the Taliban reversed its suspension, which was imposed over alleged ties to an overseas TV channel. The station, which first launched on International Women’s Day in March 2021, has been a rare platform for …

KABUL – US President Donald Trump has said that if Afghanistan wants continued aid from the United States, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) must return American military equipment left behind during the 2021 troop withdrawal. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, Trump expressed frustration over …

KABUL – Trade and travel between Pakistan and Afghanistan have ground to a halt as the Torkham border crossing remained closed on Saturday, following escalating tensions between the two nations. The key transit point, which serves as a vital link between the two countries, was shut down amid rising hostilities …

Dr. Aniruddha Babar, Academician and Independent Researcher. Director, "Project Constitutional Justice- A People's Initiative", Tuensang, State of Nagaland, India.

KABUL – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), once a key player in Afghanistan’s development during the Cold War, is now facing allegations of inadvertently funding the country’s booming opium trade, which has enriched the Taliban and fueled global heroin production. A recent White House report has revealed …

KABUL – Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers announced Thursday that they are withdrawing the country from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), declaring the previous government’s decision to join the Hague-based court in 2003 as “unlawful.” The move comes weeks after ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for …

KABUL – A United Nations report has warned that Afghanistan remains a center for more than two dozen terrorist groups, contributing to regional instability. The report, compiled by the UN Security Council’s sanctions monitoring team, highlights the Taliban’s “permissive environment,” which has allowed al-Qaeda to consolidate its presence and facilitated …

KABUL – Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities publicly flogged six individuals on Tuesday after convicting them of offenses such as adultery, sodomy, and eloping, highlighting the group’s continued enforcement of harsh corporal punishments. According to the Supreme Court of the Taliban administration, the punishments were carried out in southeastern Khost and northern …

KABUL – Japan has urged the Taliban to uphold human rights during a rare diplomatic meeting in Tokyo, marking the first known visit by senior members of the hard-line Islamist group to Japan since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. Toshihide Ando, head of the …