Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, met with a number of elders and youths of Takhar province on Saturday, July 30. In this meeting, he emphasized the strengthening of national unity and solidarity among the people of Afghanistan; he added that the bright future of the country …

AT Kabul: The US state of Kentucky is facing one the worst floods in its history, Governor Andy Beshear says. Heavy rains and mudslides have left several people dead and hundreds of properties destroyed, and it is expected the death toll to rise. President Biden declared the floods “a major …

AT Kabul: A delegation of Pakistani Islamic clerics who recently visited Kabul said it urged the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools for female students beyond grade six, according to the country’s media outlet Geo News.  “In our meeting with the Afghan Taliban, we stressed that you must open girls’ schools …

AT Kabul: 25 Military personnel of the former government who had previously traveled to India for military training, returned to Afghanistan. After completing an 18-months of military and professional training at the Indian Military Academy (IMA), the graduated cadets returned to the country, said the Defense Ministry in a statement. …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai’s strongly condemned the explosion in the cricket stadium in Kabul which caused some of Afghans to be killed and injured. In another event the UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan has also condemned Friday’s explosion at the Kabul International Cricket Stadium. Dr. …

AT Kabul: China’s special representative for Afghanistan, announcing his country’s readiness to help the Trans-Afghan railway project, considered Afghanistan a bridge between Central and South Asia. “Yue Xiaoyong”, China’s special representative for Afghanistan, stated at the Tashkent conference that the growth of threats and challenges in Afghanistan can negatively affect …

AT Kabul: The US Special Representative for Women and Human Rights stated that the arguments of the interim Taliban government for banning girls’ education on the pretext of Afghan culture are not acceptable. Rina Amiri, the US special representative for women and human rights, after attending the Tashkent conference on …

AT Kabul: The Taliban announced that the second phase of Kajaki dam electricity to produce 150 megawatts has entered the Afghan electricity circuit. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Deputy Prime Minister of the Taliban, said at the inauguration ceremony of Kajaki dam: “Afghanistan was not built with foreign aid and, and …

AT Kabul: At least four people have died and 60 others were injured by a powerful earthquake in the northern Philippines, the country’s interior minister has said. The 8:43am (00:43 GMT) quake on Wednesday struck the mountainous and lightly populated province of Abra on Luzon, the country’s main and most …

AT Kabul: The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation says in the last two days, more than 2,600 Afghan refugees living in Iran and Pakistan have returned to their homeland voluntarily and forcibly. The MoRR said that according to the information of Nimroz Provincial Directorate of Refugee Affairs, 980 immigrants returned …