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Speaking at the contract signing event, Mullah Baradar stated that the country's security is strong and that the Islamic Emirate is willing to work with foreign investors

The aim of the international aid has been to prevent widespread poverty and food shortages in the country hit by a devastating humanitarian crisis since the Taliban takeover in August last year

Explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, including students, and injured 17 in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan's capital city, police said.

The blasts, which occurred in rapid succession, hurt several children and more casualties were feared, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran and the city's Emergency Hospital

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale jolted Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday as per the National Center for Seismology (NCS)."Earthquake of Magnitude:4.2, Occurred on 19-03-2022, 07:23:12 IST, Lat: 34.68 & Long: 65.45, Depth: 110 Km, Location: 344km W of Kabul, Afghanistan," NCS tweeted.There are no reports of casualties or loss of properties as of now. Further details are awaited.

Each of the bags was stamped with the text: "Gift from the people of India to the people of Afghanistan" in English, Pashto and Dari

Despite criticism, Taliban regime in Afghanistan have continued their house-to-house searches in Kabul after the clearing operation was launched a week ago aimed at tightening security in the capital

Afghanistan has recently seen a dire humanitarian crisis with millions of people struggling with starvation.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said it has launched a clearing operation under the command of Mullah Mohammad Fazal Mazloom, Deputy Minister of Defense, in some parts of Kabul

The ICRC has announced that it will support 28 regional, provincial and teaching hospitals in Afghanistan which includes the payment of the salaries of around 10,000 health workers.

A senior Taliban member has claimed that silent international recognition of the Islamic Emirate government of Afghanistan is currently underway

The Taliban-led govt in Afghanistan has approved a plan to assist the victims of war under which aid will be provided to the orphans of the Islamic Emirate and former govt forces.

Afghanistan's Ambassador to India Farid Mamundzay has said that New Delhi has been a privileged partner of Kabul and its people

Afghan women and activists have shifted their protest against Taliban mode by writing their demands on walls at night to avoid violence by the Islamic Emirate forces

Kabul residents are less interested in Covid-19 vaccination, according to mobile teams

Turkey has long expressed willingness to continue to run the airport, which is a main gateway for landlocked Afghanistan

Hundreds of people on Tuesday took to the streets in Kabul demanding to unfreeze Afghanistan's central bank reserves, local media reported.

The Taliban didn't take the Afghan capital they were invited, says the man who issued the invitation. In an Associated Press interview, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai offered some of the first insights into the secret and sudden departure of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and how he came to invite the Taliban into the city to protect the population so that the country, the city doesn't fall into chaos and the unwanted elements who would probably loot the country, loot shops. When Ghani left, his security officials also left. Defense minister Bismillah Khan even asked Karzai if he wanted to leave Kabul when Karzai contacted him to know what remnants of the government still remained. It turned out there were none. Not even the Kabul police chief had remained. Karzai, who was the country's president for 13 years after the Taliban were first ousted in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, refused to leave. In a wide-ranging interview at his tree-lined compound in the centre of the city

The Taliban on Sunday shot dead a 20-year old boy, Faisal who was attending an engagement function in Police District two of the Afghan capital Kabul.Eyewitnesses and his uncle of whom the killed Faisal was attending the wedding said, they were directed to stop for check post and they did but were shot at, reported Khaama Press."We were returning from my engagement function and were directed to stop in a check post of the Taliban in Quwa-e-Markaz. We stopped and were searched by the Taliban and then they allowed us to go, when we went there were four other Taliban who started shooting and shot dead Faisal", said Faisal's Uncle.Spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior Affairs Saeed Khostai confirmed the incident and added that two culprits have been arrested."The people were asked to stop to a check post and the Mujahideen started shooting at Faisal who was wounded and then succumbed to his wounds in hospital. Two people have been arrested in connection to the incident," said ...

India has dispatched a consignment of medical supplies to Kabul on the return flight that brought evacuated Indians and Afghans from Afghanistan, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday.These medicines will be handed over to the representatives of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Kabul and will be administered at the Indira Gandhi Children Hospital, Kabul."In view of the challenging humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, the Government of India has dispatched a consignment of medical supplies on the return flight today," the MEA in a statement, said.The special flight on Friday brought 10 Indians and 94 Afghans including members of the Hindu-Sikh minority community from Afghanistan to the national capital under operation Devi Shakti as a part of an evacuation mission undertaken by India, the Ministry of External Affairs said.Under "Operation Devi Shakti", a total of 669 people have now been evacuated from Afghanistan, the MEA said. This comprises hundreds of Indians ...