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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

Taliban announces state of emergency in Afghanistan over snow, rainfall

The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has declared a state of emergency over heavy snow and rainfall lashing majority of the country

Covid-19: India supplies 500,000 more Covaxin doses to Afghanistan

Bharat Biotech on Monday informed that India has supplied another batch of humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin to Afghanistan.Taking to Twitter, Bharat Biotech said, "Today, India supplied the next batch of humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 doses of COVID vaccine (COVAXIN) to Afghanistan. The same was handed over to Indira Gandhi Hospital, Kabul."It also informed that another batch of additional 5,00,000 doses would be supplied in the coming weeks.The last batch of humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 doses of Covaxin was supplied to Afghanistan on January 1.India has committed to provide to Afghan people humanitarian assistance consisting of food grains, one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine and essential life-saving drugs.Earlier last month, India delivered 1.6 tons of medical assistance to Afghanistan through the World Health Organization (WHO).The Taliban took over control of Kabul on August 15 and following this

Afghanistan reports 10,000 Covid-19 cases, 650 deaths in past 5 months

The Taliban informed that at least ten thousand COVID-19 cases and 650 deaths were reported in Afghanistan in the past five months.Acting Public Health Minister Dr Abdul Bari Omar on Saturday said that they had taken measures to check the spread of coronavirus and 8000 to 12000 people were administered vaccine on a daily basis, reported Pajhwok Afghan News.The public health minister shared the information at a time when health services have been disrupted in recent months across the country, creating problems for people.According to the ministry, the health sector was 90 per cent dependent on foreign aid, which has been suspended, reported Pajhwok Afghan News.Omar acknowledged the lack of resources to establish COVID-19 treatment hospitals across the country but said efforts were underway to control the situation with foreign assistance.He also said that the Taliban had discussed with UNICEF the establishment of 10 oxygen-producing plants in order to avoid its shortage.He urged the ...

Afghanistan: Many factories in Kandahar go dark due to power shortage

Amid the power crisis, various factories have been closed down in Afghanistan's Kandahar province due to lack of electricity, Pajhwok Afghan News reported.Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in mid-August, many electricity supply projects have been halted for the past four months.Officials at Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said that the main reason for halting these projects is the suspension of funds from the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the United States development aid to Afghanistan, Tolo News has reported.Turkmenistan's 500 KV electricity transmission to Afghanistan is one of these projects, which was transferring electricity from the border of Turkmenistan to Sheberghan's Aqina port and then to the Alvazun plain of Kunduz and finally to the Arghandi district of Kabul. Only 10 per cent of the work needs to be finished."90 per cent of the 500 KV line project is completed and only 10 per cent of its work remains. If the ADB allows it, we can complete .

Iran refuses to recognise Taliban govt in Afghanistan until it is inclusive

Iran on Sunday said that Tehran will not recognize the current Taliban government (Islamic Emirate) unless it's inclusive.The Iranian Ambassador Bahadur Aminian made the remarks in a special interview with Tolo News in Kabul.Aminian said that Tehran might persuade other countries to recognize the Afghan government if the Islamic Emirate brings reforms to its governance structure."If a group comes (to power) and the group is (comprised) of a single ethnic group and all other ethnic groups are not included in the government, we don't accept it, and, therefore, we benevolently call on the Taliban rulers to form an inclusive government," he said.Further, he said that the current economic crisis will pave the way for extremism, particularly for Islamic State - Khorasan (IS-K), reported Tolo News."If the economic problems remain, it will cause more migration. If the economic problems remain, they will cause extremism, which will not only threaten Afghanistan but also the region," he ...

Outsourcing to contractors made Afghanistan war a business: Report

The money from the US government for the Afghan war ensured billions of dollars for military contractors which provided the impetus to the US defeat in Afghanistan as the conflict became a business.A monopoly of smaller companies also made billions of dollars with efforts including training Afghan police officers, building roads, setting up schools and providing security to Western diplomats, according to Wall Street Journal (WSJ).The WSJ said the military outsourcing meant the US Department of Defense spent USD14 trillion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that began after September 11, 2001.Meanwhile, the large amounts of money being spent on the war effort and on rebuilding Afghanistan after years of conflict strained the US government's ability to vet contractors and ensure the money was spent as intended, according to WSJ.The report also quoted some US military officials who said that outsourcing to contractors was essential for operations.When fighting a war with an ...