AT News Kabul: Zalmay Khalilzad, the former special representative of the US government for Afghanistan affairs, once again asked the Afghan interim government officials to pay attention to the advices of Maulavi Abdul Hamid, an Iranian cleric regarding the education of girls in Afghanistan. “Those Taliban leaders who banned girls …
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AT Kabul: OCHA in its Weekly Digest for 20-26 january 2023 said that Education is a fundamental right and ransformative experience which benefits all of the society. Yet, in Afghanistan today, some 1.1 million girls have been banned from attending secondary school and over 100,000 from university. On Education day, …
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AT News Kabul: The Central Bank of Afghanistan announced on Wednesday that they have distributed 100 million new banknotes of Afghani currency to the country’s commercial banks and in return has collected damaged notes from these banks. According to the Central Bank, the new banknotes include 10, 20, 50 and …
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AT Kabul: Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan’s special representative for Afghanistan affairs, said that Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special representative for Afghanistan has visited Islamabad and the two sides discussed the bilateral cooperation and developments in Afghanistan. Mr. Sadiq added that the recent developments in the region and closer cooperation between Moscow and …
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AT Kabul: Iran’s foreign minister says that preventing women and girls from education in Afghanistan is incompatible with the teachings of Islam. According to Sputnik, Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir Abdulahian has called the prevention of women and girls from education by the Taliban in Afghanistan incompatible with …
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AT Kabul: Just two days after a gunman killed 11 people at a Los Angeles-area dance studio, seven more victims were shot dead in an agricultural area near San Francisco, as California suffered one of its bloodiest spates of mass gun violence in decades. Saturday night’s shooting in the predominantly …
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AT News Kabul: United Nations General Secretary Antonio Guterres on the occasion of Education Day on Tuesday said, “Now is the time to end all discriminatory laws and practices that hinder access to education.” He added that “I call on the Taliban to reverse the outrageous and self-defeating ban on …
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AT News Kabul: Power Company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) and Turkmenenergo have signed an additional agreement to extend contracts for electricity supplies from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan for 2023, the Afghan company reported. The document was signed in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat by DABS CEO Mula Muhammad Hanif Hamza …
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AT Kabul: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan announced that they have provided humanitarian aid to 565,700 people during this winter. According OCHA they are delivering vital winter support to vulnerable Afghan families including blankets, heating, shelter repair & cash for rent. Previously OCHA …
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AT Kabul: Abdul Jabbar Safi, the head of the Afghan Industrialists Association, says that more than 1200 industrial companies in the capital, south and east of the country have stopped operating due to the lack of electricity and thousands of people have lost their jobs in recent weeks. With the …
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