AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Syria and Pakistan, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park. A source briefed on the matter told Reuters the visas had temporarily stopped being …
Read More »AT News KABUL: The Taliban militants kidnapped about 28 civilians in Jalriz district of Maidan Wardak province. Provincial Police Spokesman told Afghanistan Times that Taliban rebels had stopped nearly ten passenger vehicles in Behsod district that were en route to Kabul. According to him, the Taliban rebels had transported 28 …
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AT News KABUL: The international community pledged in the Geneva conference to donate 12 billion dollars to Afghanistan in the next four years. Ville Skinnari, minister of foreign trade and development of Finland, said: “Today, we committed to Afghanistan until 2024. The donors pledged to finance three billion dollars in …
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AT News KABUL: Peace is the priority for the Afghan government, Spokesman for the President Ghani said. In a press briefing on Wednesday, Sediq Sediqqi said no breakthrough has been made in the talks between the Afghan peace team and the Taliban negotiating members in Doha of Qatar. He rejected …
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AT News KABUL: Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mhammad Eslami said on Wednesday that Khaf-Herat railway project, joining Iran and Afghanistan, will be inaugurated within the next few weeks. Speaking on the sidelines of a cabinet session, Eslami said the inauguration ceremony of the project will be held …
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Nearly two decades after a US-led military campaign toppled the Taliban regime for hosting al-Qaeda, the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh extremist group is a major threat with launching attacks inside and outside the country. Taliban are also yet to be demolished completely, rather the US signed …
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Afghanistan and international partners commit to shared development objectives for 2021 – 2024, and adopt a communique calling for an end to the war and a durable peace, stability and prosperity AT News KABUL: The 2020 Afghanistan Conference provided a strong expression of the international community’s enduring commitment to Afghanistan …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has recorded 212 new positive cases of Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 45,490 cases throughout the country, the Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday. These cases come positive out of 1,476 suspected samples – 56 positive cases were recorded in …
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AT News KABUL: The regular shortage of electricity in Kabul city has caused closure of dozens of factories where 15,000 workers have lost their jobs. Kabul residents are suffering problems from electricity shortage in the last one month and are provided with power only six hours a day. The power …
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AT News KABUL: The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) says they have started the initial works of the restoration of the fifth minaret in the western province of Herat. They said Wednesday that samples of the minaret had been taken and would be sent to Italy for more research. An …
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