Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: Turkish media reported that at least 500 Afghan refugees have been deported by Ankara and that more than 5,000 others are in detention, who will also be deported soon. Anadolu Agency said that Ankara is due to deport nearly 20,000 refugees, of whom over 5,000 are Afghans. “The …

AT Kabul: The Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugees Council, Jan Egeland, said on Monday that without female staff, they cannot work in Afghanistan. Egeland arrived in Kabul on Sunday to meet with the Taliban’s officials about the ban on women aid workers. “I am here in Afghanistan to meet …

AT News Kabul: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on January 9 released an info sheet providing clarification on the cash shipments to Afghanistan. The document says the United Nations transports cash into Afghanistan for use by UN agencies.  The UN reportedly uses the funds to conduct its …

AT Kabul: According to Pakistani media, this country has seen an increase in the number of terrorist attacks in various cities, especially along its borders with Afghanistan, for the second year in a row. The wave of these attacks even spread to Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan in recent weeks. …

AT Kabul: A former member of the Afghan Central Bank’s supreme council, Shah Mehrabi, said that since mid-December 2022, United Nations flights have stopped transferring cash aid to Afghanistan as part of humanitarian assistance. “The suspension of humanitarian aid coupled with a halt of bank transfer in freezing of $7 …

AT Kabul: The chargés d’affaires of Afghanistan’s embassy in Islamabad, Sardar Ahmad Shakib, called on the Pakistani government to stop arresting Afghan citizens in Pakistan, Tolo News reported. He said that more than 1,000 Afghans are prisoners in Pakistan. “1,050 Afghan citizens are in Pakistan’s prisons and efforts are underway …

AT Kabul: Protesters in southern Afghanistan on Sunday gathered following Prince Harry’s claim in his new memoir that he killed 25 people he described as Taliban fighters while posted with British forces in the country. Around 20 faculty and students demonstrated at a local university in Helmand, the province where …

AT News Kabul: With the arrival of the cold season and the first snowfall, the roads of Ghor province with Kabul and Herat provinces are blocked. Besides the public roads, the roads from the center of this province to most of the districts are also closed due to snowfall. Residents …

AT News Kabul: The chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has said that his group is “still open” to a ceasefire agreement with the Pakistan government, according to media reports.  “We held talks with Pakistan mediated by Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan. We are still open to the ceasefire agreement,” the …

AT Kabul: A woman in Herat province has created a carpet weaving and sewing workshop for more than a hundred other women with her personal investment. In this workshop, some women are working and others are learning carpet weaving and sewing. Zainab Firouzi, the person in charge of this workshop, …