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AT Kabul: Pakistan’s former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has warned that the current economic and political crisis has all the makings of attracting a military takeover, adding that the army intervened in the past in much less severe circumstances, Dawn reported. Appearing on ‘Spotlight’, an English news show on …

AT Kabul: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian underlined that his country will forcefully pursue its right to water shares from the Hirmand River in Afghanistan, and added that the Taliban have confirmed Tehran’s water right and emphasized the need to direct it towards Iran as soon as possible. Amir …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan authorities have pushed back against a leaked American military assessment claiming the ISIS is using the country to plan and coordinate international terrorist attacks against the United States and its allies. The document has reportedly portrayed the threat as a growing security concern. It noted that Afghan …

AT Kabul: UNESCO continues with preservation of Afghanistan’s heritage sites in Bamiyan, after a break of two years. UNESCO stopped its initiative to preserve heritage sites in Bamiyan in 2021. The UNESCO initiative is a project with funding from Italy. The goal is to preserve the Bamiyan Valley. The Bamiyan …

AT Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan once again emphasized for reversing ban on women’s work and education in his Eid al-Fitr message. The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, in his message on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, once again asked the interim government to reverse the ban on …

AT Kabul: The United Nations is holding a closed-door international meeting on Afghanistan in Qatar between 1-2 May in a bid to find “durable way forward” for the country, AFP reported on Wednesday. The international organisation’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene the meeting in the Gulf state, his spokesperson Stephane …

AT Kabul: The Muslim World League’s secretary general, Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, said the top Islamic scholars and universities of fiqh (jurisprudence) oppose the decision of the current Afghan government to ban women from working and getting an education in Afghanistan. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Eisa, Secretary General of Muslim …

AT Kabul: The US Office of Inspection for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known as SIGAR, has stated that the US sought to establish stable, democratic, gender-sensitive and responsive governance institutions in Afghanistan, but it failed in this mission. SIGAR added that efforts by US President Biden to keep America’s commitment to rescue …

AT Kabul: Aminah Mohammad, the United Nations deputy secretary-general and the most senior female official of this organization, said Monday that the organization plans to arrange a conference in the coming days to discuss granting recognition to Afghanistan’s interim rulers. In a meeting at Princeton University, Mohammad stated that the …

AT Kabul: The Afghanistan Ministry of Urban Development says that the process of distributing residential land in the New City of Kabul will begin. “In order to implement scientific and technical experience and achievements, the plan and design of the new Kabul project have been reviewed and its detailed plan …