Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: The United States Senate has passed a $1.7 trillion spending bill that includes hundreds of billions of dollars for military spending but fails to include a bill seen as crucial for Afghan refugees stuck in legal limbo. The Senate passed the enormous 4,155-page bill with bipartisan support on …

AT Kabul: Taliban administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the latest restriction on women’s movements. The letter, confirmed by economy ministry spokesperson, said the female employees were not allowed to …

AT Kabul: A 69-year-old gunman opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre and a hairdressing salon in Paris on Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, witnesses and prosecutors said. The shots shortly before midday (1100 GMT) caused panic in rue d’Enghien in the trendy 10th district of the …

AT Kabul: Dozens of women marched in Afghanistan against the Taliban’s decision to ban female students from university. Women marched the streets shouting ‘everyone or no one’ after the ban was announced by the higher education minister on Tuesday. Demonstrations broke out in Kabul after female students were turned away …

AT Kabul: Former President Hamid Karzai has thanked and appreciated Al-Azhar University, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, United Nations and other countries of the world for their clear stance in supporting the right to education and higher education. Karzai, besides stressing the vital and basic value of education for the growth, …

AT Kabul: Russia and India are ready to help revive ‘intra-Afghan talks’ if the Taliban want so, Moscow’s special representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said on Friday. He told The Hindu if the caretaker government of Taliban wanted their assistance, Moscow and New Delhi were ready to help and play …

AT Kabul: The Taliban government’s education minister has defended the decision to impose an indefinite ban on university education for women in Afghanistan despite the international outcry. Speaking to Afghan state broadcaster RTA on Thursday, he said that several issues had prompted the decision, including female students’ not wearing appropriate …

AT Kabul: Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has met with China’s leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, the Kremlin announced on Wednesday — hours after Ukraine confirmed its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was en route to Washington to visit his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden. Medvedev, who is now the deputy chairman …

AT Kabul: The top UN envoy for Afghanistan said Tuesday that engagement with the Afghan Taliban by the international community must continue in some form. “Afghans want continued engagement from the international community and believe that it is only through increased interaction with the authorities that positive change can take …

AT Kabul: The Taliban have released two Americans that had been in detention in Afghanistan, the state department said on Tuesday – the same day that they faced condemnation for banning women at universities. “This, we understand, to have been a goodwill gesture on the part of the Taliban. This …