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AT News Kabul: The United States on Wednesday announced that it would transfer $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets into a new Swiss-based trust fund that will be shielded from the Afghan ruling body and used to help stabilize Afghanistan’s collapsed economy. The Afghan Fund, managed by a board …

AT News Kabul: While there is only one day left for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, “Bilal Karimi”, the deputy spokesman of the Taliban interim government, said that the Afghan ruling body has not been invited to attend this meeting. The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization with the slogan …

AT News Kabul: Pakistan’s foreign ministry has contacted the Taliban in Afghanistan to trace and arrest Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, according to a Pakistani media report on Tuesday. The move comes against the backdrop of pressure on Pakistan from Western powers to act against Azhar, a UN-designated terrorist leader …

AT News Kabul: According to the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment, in the last year Afghanistan imported less than one billion dollars of goods from Pakistan, which decrease of more than half from previous year. The group added that Afghan business has decreased not only with Pakistan but also …

AT News Kabul: When presenting his report to the Human Rights Council, Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights for Afghanistan, warned about the human rights situation in the country and said, “Afghans are caught in a human rights crisis that the world seems unable to address.” He …

AT News Kabul: An agreement was signed to create an economic corridor between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. Officials say that according to this contract, commercial goods will be transported to Afghanistan through China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. On the other hand, some economic analysts consider the signing of this agreement …

AT News Kabul: Rina Amiri, U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan women says that the continuation of the Taliban’s “unfair and destructive” policy of closing the gates of schools above the sixth grade to girls “has no justification.” The representative of the United States, referring to the protest of girls in …

AT News Kabul: The United States has agreed to release a part of Afghanistan’s frozen assets, which were seized after the Taliban came to power last year, the Turkish (TRT) news agency reported. The $3.5 billion in fund is to be likely released to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) …

AT News Kabul: The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, met with Markus Potzel, the deputy special representative of UN chief for Afghanistan, and acting director of UNAMA. In this meeting, the situation in Afghanistan and the region was discussed and both sides insisted on the opening of girls’ schools …

AT News Kabul: In an interview with Afghanistan International, Ronald Newman the former US ambassador to Afghanistan said that U.S. and afghan leaders are equally blamed for failure in Afghanistan. He said that Americans were not fighting in the last two years and no one had a firm belief to …