KABUL (SW) – Heather Barr, Associate Director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, says that “This is a desperately sad time” for Afghanistan and every day going forward, as long as the ban remains in place.
KABULL (SW) – To mark the beginning of the new academic year, officials at the Juvenile Detention Center have pardoned a number of child offenders’ term here.
KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate authorities have discarded allegations levelled by former top US generals about the presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW)) – The school bells rang on Wednesday for a new academic year with no signs for the reopening of girls schools above grade
KABUL (SW) – Mohammad Abdul Kabir, Acting Deputy Prim Minister for Political Affairs at the cabinet of the Islamic Emirate, said in a meeting with Zhao Xing, the Chinese Ambassador in Kabul, that the Islamic Emirate wants to be invited as an observer member in the upcoming meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
KABUL (SW) – The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern about increasing restrictions on female journalists in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – A day after a US senator claimed that the Islamic Emirate misused humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the officials in the Ministry of Economy of the de-facto government say that governmental departments have no involvement in the process of distributing humanitarian aid to the needy.
KABUL (SW) – The Da Afghanistan Bank/Afghanistan Central Bank has announced that in order to maintain and stabilize the value of the Afghani currency, it will auction 17 million US dollars on Saturday, March 16.
KABUL (SW) – After the Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy for Afghanistan announced that the United Nations institutions and donor countries had begun reviewing the process of providing aid to Afghanistan, officials in the Ministry of Economy of the Islamic Emirate have reiterated the importance of continuing humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan from the UN and the international community.
KABUL (SW) – Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the Acting Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate, has called on the officials and investors to help the needy in Afghanistan during Ramadan month, especially those affected by natural disasters, returnees, families of victims, and single mothers.
KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate officials announced that the contract for the CASA-1000 project, is signed between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan on Friday.
KABUL (SW) – The Da Afghanistan Bank/Afghanistan Central Bank has announced that in order to maintain and stabilize the value of the Afghani currency, it will auction 15 million US dollars on Sunday, March 10.
