Afghanistan Times

AT News KABUL: A new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council finds that Western economic measures imposed on Afghanistan since Taliban takeover are preventing aid agencies from moving funds into and within the country, blocking millions from receiving emergency relief. The report published by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) shows …

AT News KABUL: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday that Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” calling for countries to authorize all transactions needed to carry out humanitarian activities in the country. Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the …

AT News KABUL: The west is planning to press the Taliban to abide by their promise to allow girls to be educated by providing funding for teachers’ salaries only in provinces in which the pledge is met. The Taliban claimed this week the group would allow girls of secondary school age to …

AT News KABUL: Western diplomats Tuesday linked humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to an improvement in human rights after meeting a Taliban delegation on a visit to Europe from Monday to Tuesday. On the final day of the Taliban‘s first official trip to Europe since returning to power in August, the fundamentalists held talks …

AT News KABUL: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $405 million in grants to support food security and help sustain the delivery of essential health and education services for the Afghan people. Under its Sustaining Essential Services Delivery Project (Support for Afghan People), ADB said, it will provide direct …

AT News KABUL: Diplomats of former Afghan government who have held on to their jobs in the U.S. are grappling with a new problem: their official bank accounts have been suspended. Two senior Afghan diplomats, who did not want to be named because the issue is under discussion with U.S. …

AT News KABUL: Afghan girls must be allowed to go to schools when they reopen in March, said former Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he reiterated his resolute stand on the key issue of girls and women’s education. “There can not be an excuse and there must not be an …

AT News KABUL: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that fundamental and life-saving primary health care services in Afghanistan are under severe threat. It is, therefore, making an urgent appeal to international donors to rapidly finance the Sehatmandi programme, as they have done for almost two decades. The programme …

AT News KABUL: Afghan women activists in a meeting with the Taliban delegation on Sunday in Norway urged the Taliban to allow all girls to go to school and include women in government. The closed-door meeting was attended by six women’s rights defenders, seven politicians and a journalist as well …

AT News KABUL: Turkiye has launched an aid campaign to support the Afghan people in need of humanitarian aid due to hunger and cold winter conditions. The decision signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was given in accordance with Turkiye’s Article 23 of Law No. 5902, Turkiye’s Official Gazette announced …