Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: The special envoys of Iran and China for Afghanistan discussed ways for cooperation between Tehran and Beijing to ensure peace and stability in Afghanistan. Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the Iranian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan who also acts as the caretaker ambassador of Iran in Kabul, held a meeting …

AT Kabul: Torkham, the main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been closed with local media reporting gunfire near the border transit point. It was not immediately clear whether Afghan or Pakistani authorities closed the Torkham border crossing, near the Khyber Pass, but Monday’s move comes after relations between …

AT Kabul: The Afghan interim government has decided that military bases left by foreign forces will be gradually handed over to the Ministry of Industry and Trade in order to turn them into special economic zones. Economic Deputy Office of the Prime Minister announced during the regular meeting of the …

AT Kabul: The Afghanistan Ministry of Public Works announced that heavy snowfall in Badakhshan provinces has blocked the roads in four districts of this province. According to Ministry’s the roads to Arghanchkhah, Raghistan, Kohistan and Yavan districts of this province are currently blocked. On Sunday, this ministry announced that the …

AT Kabul: The Pakistan Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said that the humanitarian and economic crisis in Afghanistan has made it more difficult for the Afghan interim government to live up with its obligations towards the international community. Speaking in a panel discussion in the Munich security conference Zardari urged …

AT Kabul: The committee said the administration’s decisions resulted in a “national security and humanitarian catastrophe” According to TASS news agency Republicans from the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability have started an investigation of the actions of Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration related to the withdrawal of …

AT Kabul: One of the objects downed by the US Air Force using a $400,000 missile last weekend may have been a $12 balloon released by a hobby group, a report said. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told Aviation Week that one of its balloons had gone missing, and …

AT Kabul: The Pakistan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said that the current situation in Afghanistan, and other issues including terrorism, poses a challenge to economic and trade relations of Pakistan with Central Asian nations. She said that Afghanistan has a positive effect on the expansion …

AT Kabul: Bulgarian police have made four arrests after 18 people, including a child, were found dead in an abandoned truck in Bulgaria, its government says. The truck appeared to have been illegally transporting a group of Afghan migrants. Thirty-four people, including five children, were rushed to hospitals and some …

AT Kabul: Iran and China have urged mutual neighbor Afghanistan to for an inclusive political system and end restrictions on women’s work and education. The call came in a joint statement Thursday issued at the close of a visit to Beijing by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during which the two …