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AT Kabul: Senior Biden administration officials met in person with the Taliban on Saturday for the first time since al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by the US drone strike in Kabul in late July. According to CNN, the US President Joe Biden administration sent David Cohen, the deputy …

AT Kabul: Senior US officials announced that President Joe Biden has signed a secret executive order that limits counterterrorism drone strikes outside of “conventional” war zones, including in Afghanistan. According to New York Times, adding a suspected terrorist to the list of people who can be targeted for “direct action” …

AT Kabul: Three persons sustained injury as a blast struck a mini bus in capital Kabul on Saturday, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said. “An explosive device planted in a vase alongside the road struck a mini bus in Diwan Bigi area of Police District 5 today and preliminary reports …

AT Kabul: The Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Taliban interim government has announced that due to the technical maintenance and the repair of the passport department’s tools and equipment, the distribution process will be stopped from the 8th of October. On Friday night, this ministry has written a newsletter …

AT Kabul: Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai paid respects to the victims of recent terrorist attack on Kaj Education Center and offered his condolences to their families. Hamid Karzai said in this visit that the entire Afghan people share their grief and mourning with the families of the victims …

AT Kabul: The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday predicted that the growth of world trade will decrease in the next year (2023) due to the sharp increase in energy and food prices and the increase in interest rates, which has limited imports. Reuters news agency reports that the trade …

AT Kabul: The World Food Program said it plans to provide more than 15 million people with food assistance each month until March 2023.  A spokesperson for the WFP Afghanistan, Wahidullah Amani, said that the organization needs more than $1 billion to fulfill this.   “To provide assistance to 15 million …

AT Kabul: According to Pakistani media, Pakistani Army Chief of Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa discussed the challenges in Afghanistan in a meeting with the US Secretary of Defense. The Express Tribune newspaper of Pakistan has written that both sides have emphasized on joint cooperation to prevent humanitarian crisis and …

By: Shoaib Shirzai AT Kabul: After the ouster of the Republic government and takeover by Taliban in August 2021, challenges Afghanistan is in a state of constant crisis, with a precarious economy and wider instability enabling illicit markets. increasing poverty, and macroeconomic instability. Afghans are experiencing crisis or emergency level …

AT Kabul: The head of the Afghanistan Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority, Ghulam Haidar Shuhamat, said that religious scholars are consulting over the decision on the reopening of schools for girls. He made the remarks during a large educational meeting in Parwan, which was attended by around 300 …