Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai said that the Burqa is not the Afghan culture and it has come to Afghanistan probably 200-300 years ago, and countryside women don’t wear” it.  In an interview with CNN, Karzai said that covering faces is not Hijab and the use of the …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan owes more than $100 million for electricity imported from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Energy and Water (MoEW) said. Akhtar Mohammad Nusrat, a spokesman for the ministry, said that banks in Central Asian countries, especially Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, were now having difficulty transferring money, which has prevented Breshna’s …

AT News KABUL: The Islamic Emirate has mediated negotiations between the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Pakistani government, a spokesman said. Islamic Emirate’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid on Twitter said that good progressions were made and a short-term ceasefire has been made between the two sides. “Talks were held in Kabul …

AT NewsKABUL: After passing eight months since the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate’s government, Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, announced the dissolution of five institutions, saying that these organisations has not performed any activities over the past months. “Departments that are not carrying out their activities currently …

AT News KABUL: Due to severe economic crisis affecting millions of Afghana, the Threat pose by Covid-19 is being ignored in the Afghan society of 35 million. According to the official numbers of the Ministry of Public Health, more than 7,000 people have died of the coronavirus since the outbreak …

AT NewsKABUL: The U.S. has taken control of Afghanistan’s embassy in Washington and the consulates in New York and Beverly Hills, California, the State Department said on Tuesday.The U.S. Department of State said that it had taken the “sole responsibility” for the security and maintenance of the diplomatic missions effective …

AT News KABUL: Around 30 people who attempted to commit suicide have been brought to the hospital in the past three months, the health officials in the western province of Herat said. Homayoun Forootan, head of the Badakhshan Provincial Hospital, added that most of the patients are women. Two have …

AT News KABUL: After August Collapse AT News KABUL: The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, is reportedly scheduled to visit Afghanistan from May 15 to May 26, a a UN statement said. “Bennett said he would engage with the de facto authorities and …

AT NewsKABUL: The Foreign Ministers of 15 countries voiced their concerns over restrictions imposed on girls’ access to education in Afghanistan and called on the “Taliban to respect the right to education and adhere to their commitments to reopen schools for all female students.”  The statement was issued by the Foreign Ministers …

AT News KABUL: The Islamic Emirate announced the budget for 1401 (solar year). Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate said on Twitter, the budget is supported by the revenue of the country.The total budget for the fiscal year 1401 is 231 billion afghani.  The second deputy prime minister, …