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AT Kabul: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released its first report on the illegal opium trade since the Taliban’s return to power. This organization has emphasized that drug cultivation has increased by 30 percent this year, despite the Taliban leadership order on banning the production, …

AT Kabul: Following calls to reopening of girls’ schools above sixth grade and employment for women, a group of women staged a protest in Kabul on Monday, to express their concerns about the continued effective ban on female students over 6th grade and on female employment. Protesters called on the …

AT Kabul: The number of dangerously malnourished children has spiked 47% since January this year, Save the Children said in a recent report. The number of dangerously malnourished children admitted to Save the Children’s mobile health clinics in Afghanistan has increased by 47% since January this year, with some babies …

AT Kabul: Abdullah Abdullah, the former head of the Supreme Reconciliation Council of Afghanistan, had a telephone conversation with Thomas West, the US special representative for Afghanistan. During this conversation, Abdullah and West stressed the need for initiating national dialogues among all Afghan people and reopening of girls’ secondary schools …

AT Kabul: A number of female students of Badakhshan University said that Taliban prevented them from entering the university because of their clothing and claims that some Taliban militants beat them. Today these students demonstrated and chanted in front of Badakhshan University. One of these students told local media in …

AT Kabul: Taliban Ministry of Education announced that the charity foundation “IDF” of Turkey is going to build schools in five provinces of Afghanistan. The memorandum of understanding for the construction of these schools was signed between Habibullah Agha Minister of Education of the Taliban, and Sheikh Mohammad Turan, the …

AT Kabul: More than a year after the closing of girls’ schools, a number of students and women’s rights activists gathered in Kabul to protest this decision and asked the interim government to take action in this regard. Protesters gathered on Saturday, in front of Maleka Soraya School on the …

AT News Kabul: The price of coal, and home heating materials, has surged in Kabul as winter approaches amid a drastic humanitarian situation affecting more than half of the country’s population. Meanwhile the Islamic Emirate has formed a committee headed by the Economic Deputy Prime Minister to control the fuel …

AT Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, in a phone conversation with the US Special Representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, addressed the need for dialogue among Afghans in the current situation. Karzai tweeted that they talked about the continuation of humanitarian aid from the US, and stressed on …

Local sources say that at least ten people were injured as a result of a bomb explosion in the mosque of Sheikh Mohammad Rouhani in the fifth district of Kabul on Friday. Abdul Nafee Takour, the spokesman of the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior, confirmed the incident and told the media …