Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva announced in a recent report that nearly three quarters of the world’s internally displaced people live in only 10 countries: Syria, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, Colombia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan. In the continuation of this report, the …

AT Kabul: At least two Palestinians have been killed and several others wounded on the fourth consecutive day of Israeli bombardment on the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials have said. One of the people killed in Friday’s air raid on an apartment was a senior leader of the Palestinian …

AT Kabul: Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrived in Kandahar on Friday and met with Taliban officials, reported Tolo News. He met with Afghanistan’s Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the spokesman of the Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid said on Twitter. “In this meeting, the …

AT Kabul: The meeting on Afghanistan that was held in Doha earlier this month yielded no results, and the West’s position at the talks was less than constructive, a senior Russian diplomat told TASS on Friday. The envoy noted, however, that Russia welcomes the efforts of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. …

AT Kabul: A Pakistani media reported that contrary to repeated official promises to increase trade with Afghanistan through the Torkham border and provide facilities to traders, the volume of bilateral trade has been declining since 2016. According to Dawn Newspaper, the quantum of bilateral trade with Afghanistan has plummeted to …

Thomas Niklasson, the European Union’s special representative for Afghanistan, at the end of his five-day trip to Afghanistan said that due to the restrictions on women, the humanitarian situation in this country is dark. He also emphasized that there is no possibility of recognizing the current government of Afghanistan as …

AT Kabul: Pakistani police have detained nearly 1,000 protesters in eastern Punjab Province as the arrest of the country’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has sparked violent nationwide protests. The police declared in a Wednesday statement that 945 “law breakers and miscreants” were detained across the province adding that 130 …

AT Kabul: The former president of the country said that dialogue among Afghans and the reopening of schools for girls are the vital issues facing the country. The former president of Afghanistan in a tweet reported that in a meeting with the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China Mr. …

AT Kabul: The General Traffic Police Department of the Afghanistan Ministry of Interior Affairs has announced a new color scheme for Taxi cabs operating in the country. Hasibullah Mujahid, the head of the General Traffic Police, announced the start of the process to change the color scheme of city taxis …

AT Kabul: In an exclusive interview with TOLOnews, USAID Deputy Administrator for Plans and Programming Isobel Coleman said that the current bans on women’s activity will harm Afghanistan’s economic future. “It is intense condemnation by everyone in the international community, not just Western countries, but Muslim majority countries around the …