AT Kabul: Addressing the 18th Meeting of the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on March 29, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval focused on terror financing and called upon all member countries to support relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council.  He raised the …

AT Kabul: Saudi Arabia’s cabinet approved on Wednesday a decision to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as Riyadh builds a long-term partnership with China despite U.S. security concerns. Saudi Arabia has approved a memorandum on granting the kingdom the status of a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), …

AT Kabul: Due to heavy rains and floods in Parwan, Kabul-North highway is blocked for traffic. According to local media, heavy rain has caused flooding in some parts of Charikar city, the center of Parwan, and has destroyed a number of houses, shops and agricultural lands. The witnesses say that …

AT Kabul: The members of the United Nations Security Council in a joint statement condemned recent suicide attack in Kabul, and reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms constitutes one of the most serious threats to peace and security in Afghanistan, and the world. The council members underlined the need …

AT Kabul: Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday called on Afghan authorities to release education activist Matiullah Wesa. Karzai, in a tweet, said he was disappointed with the arrest of Matiuhulla Wesa, an education activist and appreciated Pen path’s activities in Afghanistan. “I am disappointed about the arrest of …

AT Kabul: The United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned that deepening restrictions on women in Afghanistan have led women-run businesses on the “verge of collapse”.   UNHCR in a report has highlighted that a considerable number of women’s business centers have lost their clients and ceased operations throughout …

AT Kabul: The Central Bank of Afghanistan announced that it has canceled the license of individual money exchanges in order to ensure transparency, optimal regulation and supervision of non-banking financial institutions. In the announcement of Central Bank of Afghanistan, it is stated that in the past year, about 876 exchanges …

AT Kabul: An Afghan human rights activist who has campaigned for girls’ education has been arrested in Kabul. The UN mission in Afghanistan said Matiullah Wesa, founder and president of Pen Path — a non-governmental group that travels across Afghanistan with a mobile school and library — was arrested in …

AT Kabul: A suicide attack claimed by the ISIS terrorist group near Afghanistan’s foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said. On Monday, Afghan forces identified the attacker and shot at him in front of Dawoodzai business center near the foreign ministry, interior ministry spokesman …

AT Kabul: The Speaker of Grand National Assembly of Turkiye Mustafa Sentop said on March 9, that “Turkey continues to work hard so that both sides would be put at the negotiation table, to provide ceasefire and lasting peace. However, it is not possible to forecast when the conflict ends, …