AT Kabul: The 21st of November coincides with the World Television Day, but this day comes while most of the visual media in Afghanistan are facing economic problems. The organization supporting the free media in Afghanistan (NAI) has published a statement on the occasion of this day and said that …
Read More »Electronic ID card distribution resumed in Kabul
AT Kabul: Afghanistan’s National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) announced that the process of issuing National ID card in Afghanistan has been resumed normally after reaching one million and 700 thousand new electronic ID cards. The department said, a contract for printing Afghanistan’s electronic ID cards has been signed with …
Read More »Road accident kills 11, wound 46 in Baghlan province
AT Kabul: Two back to back road accidents killed at least 11 people and wounded 46 others in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province late on Saturday, local officials confirmed Sunday. The first accident took place on Saturday evening as two passenger buses collided with each other in the Kilagai area of …
Read More »Rishi Sunak makes first visit to Ukraine
AT Kabul: The British government has announced that it will provide a new air defense aid package to help protect Ukraine’s civilians and its critical national infrastructure to counter Russian aerial attacks. According to the British government’s website announcement, Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister of this country, during his first …
Read More »Chaman border closure hits hard on Afghan traders
AT Kabul: The Kandahar Chamber of Commerce and Industry says that the blocking of the Spin Boldak-Chaman crossing has cost Afghan traders millions of Afghanis. Abdul Baqi Bana, the deputy of this department, told Voice of America on Saturday that the property of Afghan businessmen is stuck on both sides …
Read More »North Korea vows ‘nuclear’ response to US threats
AT Kabul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has firmly warned to counter US threats with nuclear weapons amid Washington’s military activities in the region, including joint exercises with Seoul and Tokyo. North Korea’s official news agency KCNA said on Saturday that Kim made the warning after he personally oversaw Pyongyang’s …
Read More »Afghanistan membership revoked in MFC
AT Kabul: The Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) has announced that it has removed Afghanistan’s membership in this coalition. This decision was taken due to the loss of freedom of the media and the imposition of restrictions on the media by the current Afghan ruling body. Canada and Netherlands, which jointly …
Read More »Pakistan refuses to recognize the Taliban
AT Kabul: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, announced that his country will follow the international consensus on recognizing the Taliban government. Pakistan’s foreign minister said at a press conference in Islamabad “As far as the recognition of the Taliban is concerned, Pakistan does not want …
Read More »Turkey pushing back Afghans at Iran’s border, says HRW
AT Kabul: Human Rights Watch said in a report that Turkey is routinely pushing back tens of thousands of Afghans at its land border with Iran or deporting them directly to Afghanistan with little or no examination of their claims for international protection. “Human Rights Watch also found that Afghans …
Read More »SIGAR identified reasons for the collapse of the previous Afghan government
AT Kabul: SIGAR found the most important factor in the former ANDSF’s collapse in August 2021 was the US decision to withdraw military forces and contractors from Afghanistan, which was based on the US-IEA agreement signed in February 2020 under the Trump administration. SIGAR stated the reasons for the collapse …
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