AT Kabul: Afghanistan’s acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, has said that the ministry will soon auction a number of oil and gas rich areas in Afghanistan, he raised this issue in a meeting with the delegation of a Chinese company. The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has said …
Read More »Climate change aggravates Afghanistan’s water resources
AT Kabul: The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) tweeted today (Sunday) that climate change is reducing access to water across Afghanistan. According to OCHA the proportion of households experiencing water shortages rose from 48% in 2021 to 60% in 2022. OCHA says that $479.4M is needed …
Read More »Afghanistan reports first Polio case in 2023
AT Kabul: Afghanistan has reported the first case of poliovirus of 2023. The country’s health authorities detected it in the Nangarhar province. The country’s Ministry of Health said the first incidence of polio in Afghanistan since 2023 has been detected. According to reports, a four-year-old child has been identified as …
Read More »4.3 million internally displaced people are in Afghanistan
AT Kabul: The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva announced in a recent report that nearly three quarters of the world’s internally displaced people live in only 10 countries: Syria, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, Colombia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan. In the continuation of this report, the …
Read More »Qatar PM meets senior Afghan officials in Kandahar
AT Kabul: Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrived in Kandahar on Friday and met with Taliban officials, reported Tolo News. He met with Afghanistan’s Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the spokesman of the Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid said on Twitter. “In this meeting, the …
Read More »Russian envoy describes Doha meeting on Afghanistan as unproductive
AT Kabul: The meeting on Afghanistan that was held in Doha earlier this month yielded no results, and the West’s position at the talks was less than constructive, a senior Russian diplomat told TASS on Friday. The envoy noted, however, that Russia welcomes the efforts of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. …
Read More »Trade with Afghanistan via Torkham on constant decline
AT Kabul: A Pakistani media reported that contrary to repeated official promises to increase trade with Afghanistan through the Torkham border and provide facilities to traders, the volume of bilateral trade has been declining since 2016. According to Dawn Newspaper, the quantum of bilateral trade with Afghanistan has plummeted to …
Read More »EU: conditions are not in place for recognition of Afghanistan government
Thomas Niklasson, the European Union’s special representative for Afghanistan, at the end of his five-day trip to Afghanistan said that due to the restrictions on women, the humanitarian situation in this country is dark. He also emphasized that there is no possibility of recognizing the current government of Afghanistan as …
Read More »Nearly 1,000 arrested in Pakistan’s Punjab amid protests over ex-PM arrest
AT Kabul: Pakistani police have detained nearly 1,000 protesters in eastern Punjab Province as the arrest of the country’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has sparked violent nationwide protests. The police declared in a Wednesday statement that 945 “law breakers and miscreants” were detained across the province adding that 130 …
Read More »Karzai: Reopening girls’ schools is vital issue for Afghanistan
AT Kabul: The former president of the country said that dialogue among Afghans and the reopening of schools for girls are the vital issues facing the country. The former president of Afghanistan in a tweet reported that in a meeting with the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China Mr. …
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