Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: After a hiatus of three years due to coronavirus outbreak and Taliban rule, regular flights have resumed to China from Kabul with Afghanistan’s leading airlines already carrying out normal operations. Afghanistan announced the resumption of direct flights between Afghanistan and China earlier this week. The national flagship carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines began the first weekly …

AT News KABUL: In the wake of deadly clashes between Iranian and Taliban forces along southern borders, Iran has closed the Milak border crossing with Afghanistan, a major trade route between the two neighbors. Economic exchanges through the Milak crossing have been suspended due to the deadly fighting along the …

AT News KABUL: Farmers in northern Afghanistan have sustained big losses swarms of locusts have invaded thousands of acres of agricultural lands, UN food agency said Sunday. The locust outbreak has continued to threaten agricultural harvests in northern provinces as farmers can’t access the means to fight back. The invasion …

Taliban seek dialogue with Iran over water dispute AT News KABUL: Taliban’s acting foreign minister has met with Iran’s envoy ambassador in Kabul amid rising tensions between the two countries over Helmand River. Foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in a meeting on Saturday with Iran’s Ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qomi discussed …

AT News KABUL: Two international rights organizations have called for an end to the Taliban government’s crackdown on rights of women in Afghanistan. Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said the Islamic Emirate’s treatment of women and girls is a gender persecution as they have excluded women …

AT News KABUL: Clashes broke out on Saturday between Iranian border guards and Taliban forces, media reports said, with the Taliban claiming Iran shot first and that the one Afghan border guard was killed. The clashes were reported in the Kang district of Nimroz. An Iranian police official Qasem Rezaei …

AT Kabul: The US Department of State’s spokesman Matthew Miller said that “Taliban have to earn legitimacy to get international recognition.” Miller made the remarks at a press conference in Washington D.C.  “So I will say with respect to tensions between Iran and Afghanistan, I don’t have any specific comment …

AT Kabul: The head of a major international aid agency said Tuesday that key Afghan officials told him in meetings that they are close to finalizing guidelines that will allow Afghan women to resume working for nongovernmental organizations. But they were unable to give a timeline or details when pressed. …

AT Kabul: The European Union (EU) has delivered nearly 100 tons of medicines and medical supplies to Afghanistan. Deputy political representative of the European Union for Afghanistan, Raffaella Iodice, on Wednesday, tweeted that nearly 100 tons of medicine and medical supplies were delivered to Kabul, Afghanistan. “Close to 100 tons …

AT Kabul: Taliban officials on Wednesday said that 66 prisoners, including childrens, were released from the prisons in Pakistan’s Sindh province. According to the General Consulate of Afghanistan in Karachi, Pakistan, 66 prisoners, including eight children, were released from Sindh’s Karachi Central Jail. According to instructions from the Taliban’s Ministry …