AT News KABUL: More than 300,000 Afghans were forced to take shelter in Pakistan since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August and majority of them are being asked to return. Pakistani officials revealed the numbers Thursday for the first time, saying 105,000 Afghans entered Pakistan on valid visas, …
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AT News KABUL: Uzbekistan has sent technical engineers to Mazar-e Sharif city to help repair its airport equipment and restart operations after months of shutdown after Taliban takeover in August. Technicians would complete their work on the airport early next year, Uzbekistan special envoy for Afghanistan, Ismatilla Ergashev, said on …
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AT News KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai has said that he had invited Taliban to enter Kabul before the takeover of the country’s capital city on August 15. In a shift in the popular narrative, Karzai revealed that he had invited the Taliban, who had agreed to wait outside of Kabul, to discuss a …
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AT News KABUL: Former president Hamid Karzai has said ex-president Ashraf Ghani’s escape ruined a last-minute deal that was meant to transfer the power from Ghani to a power-sharing government. In an interview with the Associated Press published on Wednesday, Karzai said that rumors had spread in the city on …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s healthcare is dealt a devastating blow amid a rapidly shrinking economy and an acute cash squeeze, with hospital already running out of diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients. The Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital, the only COVID-19 facility for the more than four million …
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AT News KABUL: The UN’s special representative for Afghanistan warned on Wednesday that Afghanistan is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe and its collapsing economy is heightening the risk of extremism. Deborah Lyons said the United Nations predicts that 60% of Afghanistan’s 38 million people face crisis levels of …
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AT News KABUL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced nearly $144 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan on Thursday. “As part of our enduring commitment to the people of Afghanistan, the United States announced today nearly $144 million in humanitarian assistance to those affected by …
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AT News KABUL: The United Nations has again sounded the alarm bells of extrajudicial killings across Afghanistan amid continuing reports of hangings, beheadings and public displays of corpses. Between August and November, we received credible allegations of more than 100 killings of former Afghan national security forces and others associated with the former …
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AT News KABUL: The UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching a crisis appeal for Afghanistan where millions are on the brink of famine. Fifteen UK aid agencies – including Oxfam, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief and the British Red Cross – will join together to ask the public to donate. …
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AT News KABUL: The European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that engagement with the Taliban is necessary, but added that that it should be conditional. “Conditions for engagement include five benchmarks that EU had highlighted in September, and the Islamic Emirate should make progress on those benchmarks,” …
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