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AT News Kabul: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on January 9 released an info sheet providing clarification on the cash shipments to Afghanistan. The document says the United Nations transports cash into Afghanistan for use by UN agencies.  The UN reportedly uses the funds to conduct its …

AT Kabul: A former member of the Afghan Central Bank’s supreme council, Shah Mehrabi, said that since mid-December 2022, United Nations flights have stopped transferring cash aid to Afghanistan as part of humanitarian assistance. “The suspension of humanitarian aid coupled with a halt of bank transfer in freezing of $7 …

AT Kabul: The chargés d’affaires of Afghanistan’s embassy in Islamabad, Sardar Ahmad Shakib, called on the Pakistani government to stop arresting Afghan citizens in Pakistan, Tolo News reported. He said that more than 1,000 Afghans are prisoners in Pakistan. “1,050 Afghan citizens are in Pakistan’s prisons and efforts are underway …

AT Kabul: Protesters in southern Afghanistan on Sunday gathered following Prince Harry’s claim in his new memoir that he killed 25 people he described as Taliban fighters while posted with British forces in the country. Around 20 faculty and students demonstrated at a local university in Helmand, the province where …

AT News Kabul: With the arrival of the cold season and the first snowfall, the roads of Ghor province with Kabul and Herat provinces are blocked. Besides the public roads, the roads from the center of this province to most of the districts are also closed due to snowfall. Residents …

AT Kabul: A woman in Herat province has created a carpet weaving and sewing workshop for more than a hundred other women with her personal investment. In this workshop, some women are working and others are learning carpet weaving and sewing. Zainab Firouzi, the person in charge of this workshop, …

AT News Kabul: In a book to be published next week, Prince Harry admitted that he killed 25 people while in Afghanistan. The English newspaper “Guardian” published an exclusive report on Thursday about Prince Harry’s book, the little boy of England’s witness; The book is going to be released publicly …

AT News Kabul: The Taliban interim government in Afghanistan has signed an oil extraction agreement with China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co (CAPEIC), the country’s first major foreign deal since the political resettlement in August 2021. Under the contract, the CAPEIC will invest $150 million in one year …

AT News Kabul: According to the deputy governor of Badakhshan province, three workers trapped in the Yavan gold mine are still under the rubble, and efforts to rescue them continue. He said that another rescue team was sent to the area this morning. On Thursday afternoon 3 workers were trapped …

AT News Kabul: The UN’s lead humanitarian coordinator has said UN-supplied aid cannot continue if the interim government does not lift their ban on women working for humanitarian aid agencies in Afghanistan. Martin Griffiths, the head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is due to visit …