AT News KABUL: Economic woes in Afghanistan have created an uncertain environment for local businesses in Kandahar with many founders planning to move their businesses to either Pakistan or Iran. Deputy Director of Kandahar Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nematullah Nemat says challenges such as constant power outage have paralyzed the …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: Pakistan said Monday it is bent on fencing its porous Durand Line with Afghanistan and is engaging with the Taliban regarding a recent attempt by Pakistani soldiers to install a security fence in Nangarhar. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said his country is determined to …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reacted to recent policy announced by the Taliban government following a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) about Taliban restricting women and girls’ sports activities and their access to medical services. Last week, the Ministry of Virtue and …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: At least ten thousand Covid-19 cases and 650 deaths were reported in Afghanistan in the past five months. Taliban’s health minister Dr. Abdul Bari Omar said Saturday they had taken measures to check the spread of coronavirus and 8,000 to 12,000 people were administered vaccine on a daily basis. According to …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: Many factories have been shut down in Kandahar province due to lack of electricity as Afghanistan is already suffering from power crisis. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in mid-August, many electricity supply projects have been halted for the past four months. Officials at Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said that the …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: Iran on Sunday said that Tehran will not recognize the current government unless it is inclusive and represented by all Afghan people. The Iranian Ambassador Bahadur Aminian has said Tehran might persuade other countries to recognize the Afghan government if the Islamic Emirate brings reforms to its governance …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: India’s Bharat Biotech on Monday informed that India has supplied another batch of humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin to Afghanistan. Taking to Twitter, Bharat Biotech said, “Today, India supplied the next batch of humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 doses of COVID vaccine (COVAXIN) to Afghanistan. The same was handed over …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: The Wall Street Journal reported that private contractors made billions of dollars in 20 years of US war in Afghanistan. WSJ in a recent report on Friday called the US 20-year war in Afghanistan a “failure” and said that private contractors were the main winners, making huge …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: Uzbekistan and Afghanistan are discussing the resumption of the construction of the Surkhan-Puli-Khumri transmission line, according to media. Negotiations on this took place in Tashkent from 25 to 30 December with representatives of the Taliban and Afghan Energy Company DABS attending the talks. The agreement on the …
Read More »
AT News KABUL: Over 28,000 children have been killed in conflicts since 2005 in Afghanistan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday in a press release. According to UNICEF, Afghanistan has the highest number of verified child casualties since 2005: “Afghanistan, for example, has the highest number of …
Read More »
Afghanistan Times