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AT Kabul: The Department of Defense said China has taken advantage of the US bungled withdraw from Afghanistan to damage the U.S. diplomatically with its allies. In its annual report Tuesday to Congress regarding national security developments involving China, the Pentagon wrote “Chinese officials and state media outlets also repeatedly …

AT Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, met with Mr. Takashi Okada, the ambassador of Japan to Afghanistan. In this meeting, in addition to discussing the good relations between the two countries, Hamid Karzai praised Japan’s efforts in the reconstruction of Afghanistan and the country’s efforts to strengthen …

AT Kabul: The distribution of coal at reduced prices—an initiative launched by the Taliban interim government—has kicked off in Kabul. The Kabul municipality said that the price of coal sold by the government is 50 percent less than the market price and there are 32 centers across Kabul. “The coal …

AT Kabul: A high-ranking delegation led by Minister of State for Foreign Affair, Hina Rabbani Khar landed in Kabul for a one-day visit on Tuesday. The state minister, whom delegation also includes Special Assistant for Prime Minister for Afghanistan Sadiq Khan, will hold political dialogue with the Taliban-led Afghan interim …

AT Kabul: The 10th Herat security dialogue with the title “Inclusive Political System, Patterns and Roadmaps” started at the central library of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, with speeches by representatives from the host country. Since 2012, this meeting has been held every year by the Afghan Institute for Strategic …

AT Kabul: As winter sets in across Afghanistan and as the economic crisis worsens, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seeing a spike in cases of child pneumonia and malnutrition. At 33 ICRC-supported hospitals across the country, child malnutrition cases are already 90 percent higher in 2022 …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan will play their home games in the UAE over the next five years. An agreement was signed between the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) and the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB), firming up the deal. As part of the agreement, Afghanistan will play UAE in a three-match T20I series …

AT Kabul: Pakistani Media reported that this country’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar is set to visit Kabul on November 29. According to diplomatic sources, a high-level delegation, including Special Representative Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq and officials of other ministries, particularly the finance ministry, will accompany Hina …

AT Kabul: The Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif in a meeting with the president of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), Yalçın Yüksel, welcomed the prospect of the ECO’s extension to the landlocked Central Asian countries for exploring wider economic and trade dividends. Sharif also suggested hosting an ECO member countries’ …

AT Kabul: The press office of the President of Tajikistan published a statement on Saturday November 26, saying that the President of this country had a conversation with the President of France about Afghanistan. It is said that this telephone conversation was conducted at the request of the French President. …