Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: A number of travel agencies in Afghanistan say that the price of airline tickets has doubled since last year. According to these agencies, currently the price of tickets for Kabul – Dubai is $500, while two years ago it was $250. “Before, the price of tickets for Kabul- …

AT Kabul: Two explosions at an ammunition depot in a northwestern region of Pakistan have left at least 13 people dead while injuring over 50. Provincial police chief, Akhtar Hayat, said on Monday that the explosions rocked a counter-terrorism office in northwestern Swat valley. The valley was previously controlled by …

AT Kabul: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a meeting with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative to Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva, discussed the current situation of country and stressed the need of opening schools and universities for girls and lifting the ban on women working in national and international organizations. …

AT Kabul: Pakistan’s former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has warned that the current economic and political crisis has all the makings of attracting a military takeover, adding that the army intervened in the past in much less severe circumstances, Dawn reported. Appearing on ‘Spotlight’, an English news show on …

AT Kabul: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian underlined that his country will forcefully pursue its right to water shares from the Hirmand River in Afghanistan, and added that the Taliban have confirmed Tehran’s water right and emphasized the need to direct it towards Iran as soon as possible. Amir …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan authorities have pushed back against a leaked American military assessment claiming the ISIS is using the country to plan and coordinate international terrorist attacks against the United States and its allies. The document has reportedly portrayed the threat as a growing security concern. It noted that Afghan …

AT Kabul: UNESCO continues with preservation of Afghanistan’s heritage sites in Bamiyan, after a break of two years. UNESCO stopped its initiative to preserve heritage sites in Bamiyan in 2021. The UNESCO initiative is a project with funding from Italy. The goal is to preserve the Bamiyan Valley. The Bamiyan …

AT Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan once again emphasized for reversing ban on women’s work and education in his Eid al-Fitr message. The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, in his message on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, once again asked the interim government to reverse the ban on …

AT Kabul: The United Nations is holding a closed-door international meeting on Afghanistan in Qatar between 1-2 May in a bid to find “durable way forward” for the country, AFP reported on Wednesday. The international organisation’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene the meeting in the Gulf state, his spokesperson Stephane …

AT Kabul: The Muslim World League’s secretary general, Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, said the top Islamic scholars and universities of fiqh (jurisprudence) oppose the decision of the current Afghan government to ban women from working and getting an education in Afghanistan. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Eisa, Secretary General of Muslim …