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Pak NSA Moeed Yufuf to visit Kabul this week for bilateral talks: Report

Pakistan NSA Moeed Yufuf will lead a high-level inter-ministerial delegation to Kabul on Tuesday for a two-day trip for talks on bilateral matters

Schools, universities in Afghanistan to reopen in March, says Taliban

The Taliban on Sunday said that it will open schools and universities for girls and boys in March 2022.Deputy Minister of Information and Culture and spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Zabiullah Mujahid speaking with US-based news agency Taliban is not against education, but boys and girls must be completely segregated in schools, reported Tolo News.Mujahid said that the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education are working hard to reopen higher schools and public universities in two months, reported The Khaama Press.The spokesman said that higher schools in most of the provinces have been reopened and in some provinces, they are still closed due to economic issues.He reiterated that girls and boys will be separated in classrooms and they are working to build more hostels for girls around Afghanistan.It has been nearly six months that 150 public universities have been closed across Afghanistan while in 40 private universities boys and girls study, reported ...

95% Afghan journalists unable to cover stories independently: Media survey

A media survey showed that 95 per cent of Afghan journalists have the problem of access to information and they cannot cover stories independently.

There's no need for foreign manpower in Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai

Reacting to Pakistan PM Imran Khan's directive to send qualified and trained Pakistani manpower to Afghanistan, former President of the war-torn nation Hamid Karzai said that there was no need of that

Pakistan to give permanent residency for wealthy Afghans, Chinese

The Pakistan government has decided to offer permanent residency to foreign investors, especially to fetch heavy investments from wealthy Afghans, Chinese and American Sikhs

Afghanistan to reopen universities for public soon, including women

Afghanistan will reopen universities for the public soon including with the due attendance of female students

Taliban says won't allow any country to use Afghanistan military aircraft

Afghanistan acting Defense Minister Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said the military aircraft that were taken abroad should be returned

As many kids die before their 5th birthday in UP as in Afghanistan: Report

Child mortality rates in several Indian states is similar to that of strife-torn countries

US announces $308 million in aid for Afghanistan as crisis grows

Nearly 80 per cent of Afghanistan's previous government's budget came from the international community

Taliban to resume hiring government employees without women recruits

The Taliban announced to resume hiring government employees but said that the women are excluded from those recruitments.

Almost 80% of Afghan journalists changed profession post-Taliban takeover

Nearly 80 per cent of Afghan journalists changed their profession after the Taliban took control of the country.

Kabul women shift protest mode, write demands on city walls at night

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

Wanted TTP commander Muhammad Khorasani killed in Afghanistan

A senior security official confirmed Khurasani's death but refused to share details about the circumstances around the high-profile killing.

Taliban has to fulfil promises if they want resources to be unfrozen: UN

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) High Commissioner Filippo Grandi has said that the Taliban has to fulfil some promises if they want their financial resources to be unfrozen.The UN commissioner for refugees further said that Afghan women and girls must be allowed to attend schools, and minorities must be represented, reported Tolo News.Meanwhile, he also told the Washington Post that it is important to maintain dialogue with the Islamic Emirate, saying that this will ensure that Afghanistan is "viable", reported Tolo News."But in the end, in the end, it is important to maintain that dialogue with the Taliban, because all these systems will be temporary in nature, and how to ensure that Afghanistan is viable, is a viable country able to support its people, I think will only be achieved through dialogue between the international community and the Taliban themselves," said Grandi.Grandi added that he delivered the same message to the Islamic Emirate when he was visiting Kabul that the ...

India to transport wheat, Covid-19 vaccine to Afghanistan via Iran

India got a helping hand from Iran to transport humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan .

Iran offers to assist India in transportation of aid to Afghanistan

The offer was made by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian during a telephonic conversation with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar

Afghanistan's political situation compounds TAPI pipeline incompletion

Political turmoil Afghanistan has compounded the completion of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline, also known as Trans-Afghanistan pipeline incompletion for three decades.The major gas pipeline project is known as TAPI for Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India--has yet to be completed despite being "in progress" for the past three decades. During this time Afghanistan has seen the collapse and establishment of various governments, according to Tolo News.Also, Afghanistan Deputy Prime Minister Adbul Salam Hanafi met with Turkmenistan's Deputy Foreign Minister Wafa Khadzhiev on Saturday and discussed bilateral co-operation including restarting the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India project in Afghanistan.Earlier, the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and India in 2010, 2015 and 2018 discussed TAPI.The latest meeting over TAPI was held in 2018, in which several other projects including electric power facilities, a railway, and fiber optics were ...

Clash between Afghan resistance, Taliban breaks out in Panjshir: Reports

The clashes between the Taliban and National Resistance Front (NRF) broke out in Afghanistan's Panjshir province, Sputnik reported citing local media

Need $2.6 billion to help Afghan people, says World Food Programme

Nearly 23 million people in Afghanistan are starving due to the worst drought in decades, a surge in food prices and the political condition of the country: WFP

India in talks with Pak on modalities for sending wheat to Afghanistan

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at a media briefing that India is committed to sending humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people