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AT News KABUL: Pakistan will complete the remaining fencing work along the Durand Line with the consent of Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, taking into account their concerns and reservations, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said on Friday. Pakistan has completed almost 90 per cent fencing work along the 2,670-km international border …

AT News The United Nations chief has warned that millions of Afghans are on the “verge of death”, urging the international community to fund the UN’s $5bn humanitarian appeal, release Afghanistan’s frozen assets and jump-start its banking system to avert economic and social collapse. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters on …

AT News KABUL: Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to help organize an aid conference to raise $4.5 billion for Afghanistan, warning that tens of millions of Afghans face starvation if funds are not raised. “We are witnessing a shameful but also self-defeating …

AT News KABUL: Chinese photovoltaic (PV) suppliers are eyeing opportunities in Afghanistan amid the growing expectation of more cooperation from the Afghan government and businesses there, where electricity supplies are uncertain.The Chinese business representative group called Chinatown in Kabul is in close contact with several domestic PV companies about doing …

AT News KABUL: Iran is exporting 110 megawatts of electricity to Afghanistan per day and this amount can be increased as the maximum export capacity to the neighboring nation is 175 MW, the energy minister’s advisor for international affairs said. “Iran’s power grid is connected to Afghanistan’s Herat and the …

AT News Kabul: Head of provincial education department Mawlawi Ismail Abu Ahmad has said political conflicts in the region have caused closure of schools depriving 30,000 students from schooling. “All schools have been damaged. There have been bombardments. Schools have been used as outposts for the public uprising and police …

AT News KABUL: China’s foreign ministry on Monday urged the United States to unfreeze Afghanistan’s assets and lift unilateral sanctions on the country as soon as possible. Reacting to remarks made recently by Afghanistan’s deputy prime minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, that recent rain and snow has aggravated the already …

AT News KABUL: The United Nations and non-governmental organizations will launch on Tuesday an international funding appeal to gather $5 billion to deliver vital humanitarian relief to 22 million people in Afghanistan and support 5.7 million displaced Afghans in five neighboring countries. The humanitarian and refugee response plans combined require …

AT News KABUL: An explosion in Nangarhar province on Monday killed nine children and wounded four, according to Taliban governor’s office. A statement from the governor’s office said the blast took place when a cart selling food items struck an old, unexploded mortar shell in the district of Lalopar, in …

AT News KABUL: Iran is still not ready to officially recognize the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan, said Iranian foreign ministry, after a meeting with the group in Tehran on Sunday. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Sunday’s high-level talks with Taliban representatives were “positive”, but Iran is …