AT News KABUL: Canada has brokered a deal with the United Arab Emirates to resettle at least 1,000 Afghan refugees languishing in the UAE since the withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan in August 2021. Canada’s Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship said that Canada will fulfill …
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AT News KABUL: The Taliban administration has sharply reduced opium cultivation in Afghanistan as annual opium cultivation has dropped by a whopping 80 percent compared to last year, according to new research. In April 2022 almost a year after taking control of Afghanistan, the Taliban banned the cultivation, production, and …
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AT News KABUL: India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that his country is focusing on helping the Afghan people and would stay away from politics. Addressing a press conference in India, Jaishankar said an Indian technical team was sent to its Embassy in Afghanistan to monitor the situation and to see …
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AT News KABUL: In a harrowing report last week, the United Nations in a report listed Afghanistan among the nine hotspots of highest concern, revealing that at least 15.3 million people (35% of population) are estimated to face high acute food insecurity. UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World …
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AT News Kabul: The Ministry of commerce and industry says that Kabul and Moscow have reached an agreement on the purchase of oil and gas, and this agreement will be signed soon. Nuruddin Azizi, the Acting Minister of commerce and industry, who has just returned from Russia, says that many …
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AT Kabul: In an inrerwive with NPR, Former Prisedent Hamid Karzai calls on the United States government to atone for its mistakes in Afghanistan and help Afghan nation during these hard times.When the Taliban captured Kabul last August, the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed and hundreds of thousands of Afghans fled …
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AT Kabul: Three senior commanders of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been killed in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan. According to Pakistani media quoting Pakistani officials and militant sources. Omar Khalid Khorasani, Abdul Wali Mohmand, , The other two were identified as Hafiz Dawlat and Mufti Hassan were killed …
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AT News KABUL: Azizullah Fazli, former president of Afghanistan Cricket Board, has reportedly been arrested by the Taliban. Voice of America quoting a source, who did not want to be named, said that Fazli entered the Cricket Board on Sunday and wanted to take over the board as its new …
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AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s healthcare is dealt a devastating blow amid a rapidly shrinking economy and an acute cash squeeze, with hospital already running out of diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients. The Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital, the only COVID-19 facility for the more than four million …
Read More »Text by Martin Albrow A man buys the first, second and third volumes of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China at Eastwind Books & Arts in San Francisco, California. The first batch of the third volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has been distributed to more than 70 …
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