AT News KABUL: The Taliban’s restrictions on women working could cost the Afghan economy up to $1 billion an equivalent of 5% of the country’s GDP, the United Nations Development Programme said in a new report as the Taliban seek global help to avert a deepening crisis. The UN report …

AT News KABUL: NATO foreign ministers met Wednesday to discuss the alliance’s 18-year security presence in Afghanistan, nearly 3 months after the chaotic U.S.-run troop evacuation from the country. NATO took over the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in 2003, almost two years after a U.S.-led coalition invaded the …

AT News KABUL: Indian government is considering its options to re-staff its embassy in Afghanistan as several countries including the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Japan and the European Union are beginning to discuss the possibility of re-opening embassies in Kabul. In November, the UAE re-started operations in Kabul which would add …

AT News KABUL: Representatives of the European Union met with the Taliban delegates during weekend talks in Qatari capital Doha on Sunday and raised concern about the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. Both sides sent senior officials to the Qatari capital Doha for the talks, which happened just ahead of two …

AT News KABUL: At least five people were injured after a powerful magnetic bomb went off near a school in Kabul city. Interior Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khosti said nobody sustained injuries in the blast, but eyewitnesses say at least 5 people were seen injured in the scene. The blast took place near Habibia …

AT News KABUL: British intelligence service MI6 chief Richard Moore has denied the fall of Afghan capital Kabul was an intelligence failure. In his first live broadcast interview, he admitted the assessment of the Taliban’s progress in Afghanistan was “clearly wrong”, but denied Kabul’s fall was an intelligence failure. “The …

AT News KABUL: The World Bank is working on a proposal to deliver up to $500m from a frozen Afghanistan aid fund to humanitarian agencies. Reuters news agency reported that Work Bank board members will meet informally on Tuesday to discuss the proposal, hammered out in recent weeks with US …

AT News KABUL: Leaders of several Asian countries called for boosting their economic ties and pledged to provide assistance to Afghanistan during an economic summit in Turkmenistan on Sunday. The countries, which are members of the Economic Cooperation Organization that includes Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and six ex-Soviet nations, voiced …

AT News KABUL: Turkish ambassador to Kabul Cihad Erginay met on Sunday with Taliban’s Deputy Prime Minister Mawlawi Abdul Kabir and discussed humanitarian aid and Istanbul’s interest to invest in Afghanistan. Ambassador Erginay said Turkish investors are interested in investing in Afghanistan and will travel to Afghanistan in the coming …

AT News KABUL: Death rate of children affected by malnutrition in Afghanistan has surged in recent months amid the severe shortages of medical and food supplies, officials said. Officials at the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital said that the number of malnourished children has recently jumped by 50 per cent. “The number of patients …