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AT Kabul: At least five people were killed and several others were injured in a blast outside the foreign ministry in capital Kabul on Wednesday, officials said. Kabul police chief Khalid Zadran said an explosion took place on the road outside the Afghan foreign ministry in which five of “our …

AT Kabul: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of Covid-19 in the United States, according to the news agency Reuters. Addressing a press briefing here, the WHO and …

AT Kabul: Continuous and long-term power outages in Afghanistan have been one of the main challenges of the Taliban administration in providing electricity services to citizens in the past year and a half. In this year, more than any other year, the citizens of Afghanistan faced the problem of long-term …

AT Kabul: Local sources from Parwan province have informed about the blocking of Salang highway due to heavy snowfall and storm. According to them, the Salang highway in Parwan province has been blocked for travelers this morning, Wednesday, January 21, after heavy snowfall accompanied by a storm. The manager of …

AT Kabul: A delegation of Muslim clerics, who has visited Afghanistan, on Tuesday called for ensuring the right to education for every Muslim and emphasized the need for girls’ access to education in Afghanistan. According to them, education is the right of all Muslims, and Afghan girls should also be …

AT Kabul: SIGAR, the US Special Inspector General for the Afghanistan Reconstruction, has said in a new report that the US project failed after 17 years of effort and investment worth millions of dollars to develop and build capacity in the mining sector in Afghanistan. According to this office, since …

AT Kabul: Turkish media reported that at least 500 Afghan refugees have been deported by Ankara and that more than 5,000 others are in detention, who will also be deported soon. Anadolu Agency said that Ankara is due to deport nearly 20,000 refugees, of whom over 5,000 are Afghans. “The …

AT Kabul: The Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugees Council, Jan Egeland, said on Monday that without female staff, they cannot work in Afghanistan. Egeland arrived in Kabul on Sunday to meet with the Taliban’s officials about the ban on women aid workers. “I am here in Afghanistan to meet …

AT News Kabul: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on January 9 released an info sheet providing clarification on the cash shipments to Afghanistan. The document says the United Nations transports cash into Afghanistan for use by UN agencies.  The UN reportedly uses the funds to conduct its …

AT Kabul: A former member of the Afghan Central Bank’s supreme council, Shah Mehrabi, said that since mid-December 2022, United Nations flights have stopped transferring cash aid to Afghanistan as part of humanitarian assistance. “The suspension of humanitarian aid coupled with a halt of bank transfer in freezing of $7 …