Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed China’s plan for the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine when they met one-on-one on Monday, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. The Chinese president is paying a state visit to Russia on March 20-22. On Monday he …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan’s schools reopened Tuesday for the new academic year, but no classes were held as students were unaware of the start and hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred from attending class. Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls are prohibited from going to …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan has been celebrating Nowruz, the New Year for centuries. It is usually a colorful and joyous festival, welcoming spring and a new life. But the celebration has been dampened since the Taliban’s takeover in 2021, and the subsequent economic hardships. Nowruz is no longer an official holiday …

AT Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, in a recent interview with Canada’s CBC TV, called the education of girls very important and said that he is trying to regain this right for Afghan girls because education is the means of development and prosperity of any society. “… …

AT Kabul: A massive search operation has been launched in the north Indian state of Punjab to arrest a radical Sikh preacher and Khalistan sympathizer, Amritpal Singh, after he was declared a “fugitive” by the Punjab police and has been on the run since Saturday. The operation that continued on …

AT Kabul: An ex-Australian SAS soldier who served in Afghanistan has been arrested and charged with a war crime. Oliver Schulz was arrested on Monday morning by Australian Federal Police officers and had his case mentioned in Queanbeyan Local Court on Monday afternoon. The AFP and the Office of the …

AT Kabul: The Ministry of Finance said that based on the decision of their leadership, import duties on basic food items have dropped by between 50 and 70 percent in the last solar year. As a result of this decision customs duties have been reduced to the value of 6.7 …

AT Kabul: Razia Muradi, a 27-year-old female student from Afghanistan, has won a gold medal for her excellent performance in a master’s programme in a college in India, VOA reported. She has dedicated this medal to all the Afghan women who were denied higher education. She pursued her bachelor’s degree …

AT Kabul: More than 70 countries, including the European Union, expressed concern about the ban on Afghan women and girls’ access to education and work in Afghanistan in a joint statement on Sunday. According to the statement, banning Afghan women’s work in domestic and foreign non-governmental organizations would deny millions …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan has sought help from the United Nations (UN) amid rising concerns about drought in the country, asking the UN to provide storage facilities for wheat, TOLOnews reported. According to this report, the chamber of agriculture and livestock has called the UN to help the country and said …