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AT New Kabul: Former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai met UN deputy representative to Afghanistan Potzel Markus on Monday to discuss pressing issues affecting the people of Afghanistan. In this meeting both sides stressed on the reopening of educational centers for women and girls across Afghanistan and the return of …

AT News Kabul: Iranian media citing the country’s Education Ministry reported that three gender-specific universities in Iran have expressed readiness to enroll hundreds of Afghan girls after the ban imposed on female students from attending private and public universities in Afghanistan. According to Iranian Deputy Science Minister for International Affairs, …

AT Kabul: A senior U.N. official in Afghanistan met on Sunday Afghan deputy prime minister to discuss a ban on women working for non-governmental groups that Afghan authorities have announced in a series of measures rolling back women’s rights. The interim Afghan administration decision to bar women from NGO work …

AT Kabul: The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories. The 193-member assembly voted on the resolution on Friday. Eighty-seven countries voted in favor of the resolution …

AT Kabul: Officials in the Ministry of Interior reported an explosion in the outer perimeter of the Kabul military airport and said that this explosion also resulted in casualties. Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Nafee Takor confirmed the news, saying that a number of Afghan citizens were killed in the incident. …

AT Kabul: Following reports of mistreatments of Afghan refugees in Pakistan especially women and children former president Hamid Karzai has asked Pakistan to treat Afghan refugees humanely in accordance with universal principles of human rights. Karzai tweeted that as a good and civilized neighbor behave with Afghan refugees in accordance …

AT Kabul: Pele, who is the only player in history to win three World Cups, passed away at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo following a battle with cancer. Pele, who is Brazil’s joint all-time top scorer with 77 goals in 92 matches, became an icon of the game …

AT Kabul: Afghanistan’s independent media support agency “NAI” says that hundreds of journalists and media workers have lost their jobs in the past year and 50 percent of visual media, 48 percent of audio, all print media and 80 percent of news agencies and online media have stopped their activities. …

AT Kabul: The United Nations Refugee Agency says that it is deeply concerned by the reports and pictures of Afghan refugees in Pakistani prisons, especially in the city of Karachi. “UNHCR is extremely concerned to see images and reports of the arrest and detention of Afghan refugees in Sindh province, …

AT Kabul: A former Soviet soldier who chose to stay in Afghanistan when the Red Army withdrew following a disastrous decade-long occupation that ended in 1989 has died, officials said Wednesday. Bakhretdin Khakimov, who was thought to be in his 60s and was known as Sheikh Abdullah after converting to …