Taliban-run caretaker administration has authorised a six-month preliminary plan. The plan could generate up to 30 billion Afghani (340 million US dollars) per year. Afghanistan has suffered from a lack of modern transportation facilities such as asphalted highways and trains. KABUL: The Afghan-run caretaker administration has authorised a six-month preliminary plan to build a standard … Read more
The Silab Foundation held a mass wedding for 70 couples in Kabul yesterday. Couples were unable to arrange wedding parties individually due to economic problems. It is costly to hold a wedding ceremony in Afghanistan, which might cost anywhere from $10,000 to 20,000 dollars. KABUL: A local charitable organisation has arrange a mass wedding party … Read more
Fati is a goalkeeper who honed her fluent English by watching TV series and films growing up in another, very different Afghanistan. As the Taliban retook control of her country in August 2021, Fati decided that she and her international teammates would have to leave their homeland. The scene at the Kabul in Afghanistan air … Read more
Gunmen ambushed a bus transporting airport technical staff in northern. At least two people were killed and six injured, police say. The attack is the latest in a series of deadly attacks that have hit Afghanistan. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus transporting airport employees in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least two … Read more
A bomb blast on a minibus has killed at least four people. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks that have rocked Afghanistan. A bomb blast on a minibus killed at least four people and injured several others in the Afghan capital on Saturday, … Read more
A blast struck a vehicle in the Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province on Thursday, killing six people, including five security personnel. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August of last year, there have been fewer roadside bombings and violent occurrences. A blast struck a vehicle in the Spin Boldak district of southern … Read more
Taliban’s reformed Afghan police force receives new uniforms. New uniforms replace the republican flag with the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate flag. 20,000 uniforms were created under contract from a local firm. The new uniformed police force will be deployed in Kabul and Kandahar provinces. The Taliban’s reformed Afghan police force received new uniforms on Wednesday, as … Read more
Ghulam Farooq Wardak is the former Afghan Minister of Education. He is one of thousands of Afghans who fled the nation after the US military’s loss and Taliban takeover. “It’s good to be back home,” Wardak tells state-run Bakhtar news agency. Ghulam Farooq Wardak, the former Afghan Minister of Education, returned to Afghanistan on Wednesday, … Read more
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister, described the visit of an Indian delegation to Afghanistan as a “positive start” in bilateral relations between the two countries. “Acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan visited Indian MEA Joint Secretary J.P. Singh and his delegation today.” The discussion focused on … Read more
Police in Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul, have detained 150 people on suspicion of involvement in illegal operations over the last month , according to the state-run Bakhtar news agency on Wednesday. Read more: Taliban in Afghanistan has ordered female TV anchors to hide their faces On his Twitter account, Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran confirmed … Read more
Afghanistan security forces confiscated 50 wheat-laden vehicles in the country’s southern province of Helmand on Tuesday, foiling a smuggling attempt, the local authorities reported. Read more: Afghan security forces kill four insurgents On Monday, the local authorities posted on social media that the seizure took occurred along the Kandahar-Herat highway in Washer district of the … Read more
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan: Afghan security forces killed four insurgents in the Tagab district of northern Badakhshan province on Tuesday, according to Qari Maazudin Ahmadi, director of the provincial media and culture department. Read more: Taliban ‘making women invisible’ in Afghanistan: UN expert The crackdown began at 2:00 a.m. local time Tuesday in the Rabat region of … Read more
On Sunday, about a dozen Afghan women rallied in the capital, demanding “bread, work, freedom,” against the Taliban’s strict restrictions on women’s rights. Since seizing power in August, the Taliban have rolled back the marginal gains made by women during the two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan. “Education is my right! Reopen schools!” chanted … Read more
The Taliban government’s limitations on women are intended to make them “invisible” in Afghan society, according to a UN human rights observer who visited the country on Thursday. Since regaining power last year, the Taliban have imposed draconian restrictions on women and girls in order to conform to their strict interpretation of Islam. Female adolescent … Read more
The dead toll from four bombings that ripped into minibuses and a mosque in Afghanistan has increased to at least 16, officials said Thursday, with ISIS claiming responsibility for some of the blasts. While the frequency of bombs has decreased since the Taliban took power in August, the country was shaken by numerous devastating strikes … Read more
Four bombs ripped through minibuses and a mosque in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, Officials said The number of bomb attacks has decreased across the country since the Taliban took power last August, but several deadly bombings have rocked the country during Ramadan. At least ten people were killed on Wednesday when … Read more
UN Security Council called on the Taliban to “swiftly alter” measures curtailing Afghan women’s human rights and freedoms, In a unanimously agreed statement, The action comes only days after female TV hosts were compelled to cover their entire faces, the latest in a series of Taliban restrictions on civil society, many of which target women … Read more
Women television presenters on Afghanistan’s leading news channels vowed on Sunday to speak out for their rights after being forced to cover their faces on air by Taliban authorities. Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on civil society, particularly on women and girls, in order to conform to … Read more
An eyewitness reported hearing a blast in Police District 15 along a route heading to Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan on Sunday, with deaths suspected. (developing story)
Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Afghan Taliban’s supreme leader, has issued an ordinance prohibiting interim government officials from marrying more than once. “A new proclamation of the Islamic Emirate’s supreme commander Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada instructed the Islamic Emirate’s followers to avoid two, three, or four weddings, which are unnecessary and costly,” said an official statement carried by … Read more
On Wednesday, the Afghan Taliban said that it was hosting peace negotiations between Pakistani officials and a Taliban-inspired insurgent organization that has waged a decade-long war against Islamabad. Since the Afghan Taliban returned to power last year, Islamabad has increasingly complained of attacks by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), especially along the mountainous border with Afghanistan. … Read more
In the face of a financial crisis, Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have abolished five major ministries of the former US-backed government, including the Human Rights Commission, an official said on Monday. This fiscal year, Afghanistan faces a budget deficit of 44 billion Afghanis (US$506 million), according to Taliban officials, who published their first annual national … Read more
The Afghan Taliban’s acting interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, recently stated that the Taliban leadership desired “positive relations” with the US and the rest of the world. During an interview with CNN, the Taliban leader made these remarks. In response to a question on whether the Afghan government considered the US to be an enemy, he … Read more
During skirmishes with resistance forces in Panjshir province, north of Kabul, the Taliban has been accused of human rights violations. According to a local resident, the party that seized power in Afghanistan last August shot an unarmed elderly relative. Another witnessed a neighbor being beaten unconscious by the Taliban. A local Taliban spokesman denied that … Read more
KABUL: Afghanistan’s budget deficit for this fiscal year is 44 billion Afghanis ($501 million), according to Taliban officials, who did not elaborate on how the difference between expected receipts and planned spending can be bridged. Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi announced the first annual national budget since the Taliban took control of the war-torn … Read more
Thousands of cash exchangers closed shop across Afghanistan on Sunday after Taliban authorities imposed a steep hike in licence costs, the brokers’ commission stated, in a bid to sluggish down cash laundering and terrorism financing according to monetary analysts. Afghanistan’s formal banking gadget collapsed when the Taliban swept back to energy in August ultimate yr, … Read more
Hundreds of civilians have fled fighting in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley after an insurgent group launched an offensive against Taliban forces, residents said on Saturday The Panjshir Valley is famous for being a site of Afghan resistance against Soviet forces in the 1980s, as well as a base for rebels opposing Taliban rule during the Islamists’ … Read more
Restaurants in Herat, Afghanistan’s western edge city, began allowing families to dine together again on Saturday, just days after owners claimed Taliban authorities had ordered them to separate men and women. On Thursday, several restaurant owners and managers said they received verbal orders from the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of … Read more
