AT News Kabul: Senior UN officials have arrived in Kabul for talks as the United Nations chief voiced concern over imposed restriction on women, a UN spokesman said Tuesday. Since returning to power 17 months ago, the Afghan interim government have imposed severe restrictions on women, keeping them out of …

AT News Kabul: Ukraine’s Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky has been killed, along with 15 other people, in a helicopter crash outside the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. National Police Chief Ihor Klymenko said the deadly incident had taken place in the city of Brovary on Wednesday, without specifying the cause of the …

AT News Kabul: Qatar has vowed to stand with Afghan women as they continue to face “irrational” restrictions by the Afghan interim government, Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Tuesday. In an interview with CNBC Middle East, Sheikh Mohammed said Qatar has been reaching out to …

AT News Kabul: Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, met with Ms. Amina Mohammad, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, and her accompanying delegation. Hamid Karzai welcomed the mentioned delegation to Afghanistan, and expressed his gratitude for the cooperation of the United Nations with Afghan people especially the …

AT News Kabul: Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has tendered his resignation after a public outcry erupted over comments he made suggesting that Ukrainian forces downed a Russian missile that fell on an apartment building in the central city of Dnipro and killed dozens of people. Arestovych announced his resignation …

AT Kabul: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Japanese Embassy in Afghanistan announced Japan’s aid of 1.3 million dollars for women in Helmand. This announcement states that this money will be spent to strengthen maternity and gynecological services for pregnant women and babies in this southern province of …

AT Kabul: At least three leading international aid agencies have partially resumed life-saving work in Afghanistan, after assurances from the authorities that Afghan women can continue to work in the health sector. CARE, Save the Children, and International Rescue Committee (IRC) suspended their operations in late December in protest at …

AT Kabul: Former Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association President and senior lawyer Latif Afridi was killed after an assailant opened fire on him outside the Peshawar High Court on Monday, Geo News reported. According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Kashif Abbasi, Adnan Afridi has been identified as …

AT Kabul: The organization of (Read to Lead Afghanistan) in its winter drive distribution, today distributed aid packages for 100 needy families in Kabul, 4th district. According to the organization the packages which include a bag of flour, oil, rice and winter clothes were distributed to service workers of hospitals, …

AT Kabul: David Wright, the operational manager of Save the Children Fund, says that all the activities of this organization in Afghanistan have been stopped for almost a month. According to Mr. Wright, the activity of female employees is very important for providing services and without women they cannot carry …