AT Kabul: A Polish firm has delivered Afghani banknotes to Kabul this week after the United States paved the way for the Afghan central bank to make a payment via international banking systems, a member of the bank’s supreme council told Reuters on Wednesday. The payment represents a shift for …
Read More »Russia will share the outcome of Moscow summit with Taliban
AT Kabul: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced in a press conference that Russia will inform the Taliban movement about the outcome of the next round of consultative meeting in Moscow regarding Afghanistan. Earlier Putin’s special representative Zamir Kabulov had announced that delegation or representative of the Taliban interim government …
Read More »Humanitarian crisis aggravates as winter approaches
AT Kabul: Eloi Fillion, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan, wrote on his Twitter page that with the arrival of winter, the human situation in Afghanistan will worsen. This official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said that stronger international support …
Read More »Pakistan releases 30 Afghan prisoners
AT Kabul: According to the announcement of the Afghanistan Embassy in Pakistan, 30 citizens of Afghanistan who were detained in Karachi prisons have been released with the efforts of this institution. These Afghan citizens were released from Pakistani prisons on Monday, and were transferred to Afghanistan, said Afghanistan Embassy in …
Read More »Women passengers complain on imposed travel restrictions
AT Kabul: Some women passengers complained that they are facing challenges when they attempt to travel abroad, and said that they have lost their flights due to a lack of a male accompanying them, reported Tolo News. The women said that they were not allowed to take flights from Kabul …
Read More »Karzai slams mistreatment of Afghan refugees in Pakistan
AT Kabul: Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, expressed his regret and concern about the treatment of the Pakistani government towards the Afghan immigrants. Mr. Karzai says in a tweet that based on reports, the Pakistani government has arrested nearly 1,100 Afghan migrants, including women and children, in the …
Read More »Terrorist attack survivors among top scorer in Kankor exam
AT Kabul: “Fateme Amiri” and “Hamidullah Gholamsakhi”, two of the survivors of the terrorist attack on “Kaj” education center are among the top scorers in Afghanistan’s national university entrance exam. Fatemeh Amiri, who lost one of her eyes in a terrorist incident, scored 313 in this year’s entrance exam and …
Read More »M5.4 earthquake jolts northeastern Afghanistan
AT Kabul: A magnitude-5.4 earthquake jolted Badakhshan Province in northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). US Seismological Center measured the strength of this earthquake at 5.4 degrees on the Richter scale. The depth of this earthquake was 103 km from the ground in Jerem …
Read More »UN calls for urgent action against climate change in Afghanistan
AT Kabul: At the opening of the 27th annual climate change summit of the United Nations in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the United Nations has said that the people of Afghanistan are on the edge of the precipice of devastating climate change, and one of the countries that has the “least …
Read More »Unknown gunmen kill mine workers in Faryab
AT Kabul: Local sources in Faryab province say that unknown gunmen have killed two salts mine workers and a security guard at a mine in Dawlat Abad district. According to the sources, the incident happened on Saturday night. The armed men then allegedly fled the scene. Hamidullah Botshekan, spokesman for …
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