Afghanistan Times

AT News Kabul: The UN’s humanitarian chief called on donors to restore funding for economic development and immediately provide $770 million to help Afghans pull through the winter. Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council on Monday that Afghanistan faced deepening poverty, with six million people at risk of famine, …

AT News Kabul: The violence erupted after the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said he is leaving politics. Protesters supporting Mr. Sadr took to the streets of the capital, Baghdad, and security forces opened fire. Mr. Sadr’s pronouncement on Twitter sent hundreds of his followers into the streets of Baghdad, …

AT News Kabul: One of Iraq’s most powerful figures, who has been at the center of a long crisis over forming a government, says he is retiring from political life. Moqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand Shia cleric with millions of followers, announced his decision on Twitter. Hundreds of his supporters have …

AT News Kabul: The Taliban spokesperson for Balkh Province police command says that house inspections have been launched in Mazar-e-Sharif to ensure the safety of the residents. The Balkh province police command’s spokesman, Asif Waziri said, “For better security and the request of the people of Mazar-e-Sharif, we formed a …

AT News Kabul: Ex-US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Sunday that America is more likely to face another 9/11-type attack following the humiliating US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Pompeo, who served under former President Donald Trump, blasted Biden over how the US withdrew from the war-torn country, arguing the “debacle” …

AT News Kabul: Some Afghan cinemas have been reopened after a year of being closed. The cinemas are due to display 37 movies and documentaries. The actors in the movies are happy about the reopening of cinemas and they said they had to provide funds for the films to be …

AT News Kabul: Mullah Muhammad Yaqub Mujahid, Taliban’s Acting Minister of National Defense, referring to drone patrolling in the country’s airspace, says that American drones have continued to invade Afghanistan through Pakistan. He also said that the killing of al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan has not been proven so far and remains …

AT News Kabul: A local charity organization distributed 150 sewing machines to 150 needy women in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday. “We distributed 150 sewing machines to 150 needy women including widows to work and support their families,” Abdul Hadi Mohtaj, an official of the Gulbahar Khairia Foundation told …

AT News Kabul: Flash floods triggered by destructive monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed more than 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since June, officials have said. The new death toll came a day after Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, asked for international help in battling …

AT News Kabul: Frank McKenzie, a former top general who led United States Central Command from 2019 to April 2022 admitted the US failure in the Afghanistan. He has said that Pakistan was right about Afghanistan all along, “Pakistanis never believed that we would stay, always thought that we would …