AT News KABUL: Moeed Yusuf, National Security Advisor to Pakistani Prime Minister arrived in Kabul on Saturday at the head of a delegation to discuss a broad range of issues with the Taliban. A Taliban official confirmed Moeed’s visit, saying he would discuss various issues with Taliban officials. Yusuf had …
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AT News KABUL: The UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has pledged £97 million of emergency UK aid to the Afghan people to provide life-saving food and emergency health support, as well as water and sanitation facilities. This latest allocation of vital support means the UK has now delivered on its promise …
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AT News KABUL: A United States judge on Friday gave the Biden administration two weeks to decide what should be done with $7 billion of frozen Afghanistan central bank funds, which some victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks want and which the Taliban claims is theirs. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in Manhattan gave …
Read More »AT News KABUL: Millions of people in Afghanistan are facing a dire situation as they struggle to cover their basic needs, said executive director of UN’s World Food Program David Beasley. “Afghanistan was already one of the poorest countries in the world, with 20 years, at least, of conflict with the Taliban,” …
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AT News KABUL: Millions of people in Afghanistan are facing a dire situation as they struggle to cover their basic needs, said executive director of UN’s World Food Program David Beasley. “Afghanistan was already one of the poorest countries in the world, with 20 years, at least, of conflict with the Taliban,” …
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AT News KABUL: A new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council finds that Western economic measures imposed on Afghanistan since Taliban takeover are preventing aid agencies from moving funds into and within the country, blocking millions from receiving emergency relief. The report published by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) shows …
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AT News KABUL: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday that Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” calling for countries to authorize all transactions needed to carry out humanitarian activities in the country. Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the …
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AT News KABUL: The west is planning to press the Taliban to abide by their promise to allow girls to be educated by providing funding for teachers’ salaries only in provinces in which the pledge is met. The Taliban claimed this week the group would allow girls of secondary school age to …
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AT News KABUL: Western diplomats Tuesday linked humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to an improvement in human rights after meeting a Taliban delegation on a visit to Europe from Monday to Tuesday. On the final day of the Taliban‘s first official trip to Europe since returning to power in August, the fundamentalists held talks …
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AT News KABUL: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $405 million in grants to support food security and help sustain the delivery of essential health and education services for the Afghan people. Under its Sustaining Essential Services Delivery Project (Support for Afghan People), ADB said, it will provide direct …
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