AT News Kabul: The ISIS terrorist group, by publishing a statement, claimed the responsibility for the attack on Kabul airport and added that 50 people were killed and wounded in this terrorist attack. Meanwhile international media reported that the death toll from the explosion at the entrance of the military …
Read More »Karzai stresses initiating national dialogue in meeting with UN envoy
AT New Kabul: Former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai met UN deputy representative to Afghanistan Potzel Markus on Monday to discuss pressing issues affecting the people of Afghanistan. In this meeting both sides stressed on the reopening of educational centers for women and girls across Afghanistan and the return of …
Read More »3 Iranian Universities Ready to Admit Afghan Girls
AT News Kabul: Iranian media citing the country’s Education Ministry reported that three gender-specific universities in Iran have expressed readiness to enroll hundreds of Afghan girls after the ban imposed on female students from attending private and public universities in Afghanistan. According to Iranian Deputy Science Minister for International Affairs, …
Read More »UN official meets Taliban deputy premier over women NGO ban
AT Kabul: A senior U.N. official in Afghanistan met on Sunday Afghan deputy prime minister to discuss a ban on women working for non-governmental groups that Afghan authorities have announced in a series of measures rolling back women’s rights. The interim Afghan administration decision to bar women from NGO work …
Read More »Blast outside Kabul’s military airport, causalities feared
AT Kabul: Officials in the Ministry of Interior reported an explosion in the outer perimeter of the Kabul military airport and said that this explosion also resulted in casualties. Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Nafee Takor confirmed the news, saying that a number of Afghan citizens were killed in the incident. …
Read More »Suspension of Continuing Education for Girls in Public & Private Universities
By: Hekamatullah Aziz AT Kabul: On Tuesday evening, December 20, 2022, a letter signed by Mawlavi Neda Mohammad Nadeem, Acting Minister of Higher Education, was published on social media pages and in some media outlets, in which an immediate order was given to suspend the education of girls in universities …
Read More »Karzai condemns detention of Afghan refugees in Pakistan
AT Kabul: Following reports of mistreatments of Afghan refugees in Pakistan especially women and children former president Hamid Karzai has asked Pakistan to treat Afghan refugees humanely in accordance with universal principles of human rights. Karzai tweeted that as a good and civilized neighbor behave with Afghan refugees in accordance …
Read More »NAI : 50 percent of visual media stopped operation in past year
AT Kabul: Afghanistan’s independent media support agency “NAI” says that hundreds of journalists and media workers have lost their jobs in the past year and 50 percent of visual media, 48 percent of audio, all print media and 80 percent of news agencies and online media have stopped their activities. …
Read More »UN voices concern over detention of Afghan refugees in Pakistan
AT Kabul: The United Nations Refugee Agency says that it is deeply concerned by the reports and pictures of Afghan refugees in Pakistani prisons, especially in the city of Karachi. “UNHCR is extremely concerned to see images and reports of the arrest and detention of Afghan refugees in Sindh province, …
Read More »Ex-Soviet soldier dies in Afghanistan
AT Kabul: A former Soviet soldier who chose to stay in Afghanistan when the Red Army withdrew following a disastrous decade-long occupation that ended in 1989 has died, officials said Wednesday. Bakhretdin Khakimov, who was thought to be in his 60s and was known as Sheikh Abdullah after converting to …
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