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AT Kabul: Afghanistan’s acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, has said that the ministry will soon auction a number of oil and gas rich areas in Afghanistan, he raised this issue in a meeting with the delegation of a Chinese company. The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has said …

AT Kabul: The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) tweeted today (Sunday) that climate change is reducing access to water across Afghanistan. According to OCHA the proportion of households experiencing water shortages rose from 48% in 2021 to 60% in 2022. OCHA says that $479.4M is needed …

AT Kabul: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has called for nationwide “freedom” protests on Sunday after his brief arrest and detention last week triggered deadly unrest. Khan, who has been tied up in dozens of legal cases since being ousted from power in April 2022 – was freed on …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan has reported the first case of poliovirus of 2023. The country’s health authorities detected it in the Nangarhar province. The country’s Ministry of Health said the first incidence of polio in Afghanistan since 2023 has been detected. According to reports, a four-year-old child has been identified as …

AT Kabul: The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva announced in a recent report that nearly three quarters of the world’s internally displaced people live in only 10 countries: Syria, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, Colombia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan. In the continuation of this report, the …

AT Kabul: At least two Palestinians have been killed and several others wounded on the fourth consecutive day of Israeli bombardment on the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials have said. One of the people killed in Friday’s air raid on an apartment was a senior leader of the Palestinian …

AT Kabul: Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrived in Kandahar on Friday and met with Taliban officials, reported Tolo News. He met with Afghanistan’s Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the spokesman of the Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid said on Twitter. “In this meeting, the …

AT Kabul: The meeting on Afghanistan that was held in Doha earlier this month yielded no results, and the West’s position at the talks was less than constructive, a senior Russian diplomat told TASS on Friday. The envoy noted, however, that Russia welcomes the efforts of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. …

AT Kabul: A Pakistani media reported that contrary to repeated official promises to increase trade with Afghanistan through the Torkham border and provide facilities to traders, the volume of bilateral trade has been declining since 2016. According to Dawn Newspaper, the quantum of bilateral trade with Afghanistan has plummeted to …

Thomas Niklasson, the European Union’s special representative for Afghanistan, at the end of his five-day trip to Afghanistan said that due to the restrictions on women, the humanitarian situation in this country is dark. He also emphasized that there is no possibility of recognizing the current government of Afghanistan as …