Mutaqqi seeks support for Islamic Emirate at regional conference in China
KABUL (SW) – Amir Khan Muttaqi, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate has called on countries in the region to support his government in Afghanistan.
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China urges the US to unfreeze assets of Afghanistan
MONITORING (SW) – Two key meetings on the Afghan situation convened in China’s Anhui Province on Thursday, with one, the Troika Plus meeting, the first occasion where representatives from Russia and the US sat together since the start of the Ukraine crisis.
School closure casts negative shadow on younger girls
GHAZNI CITY (SW) – The closure of secondary schools for girls has casted a negative shadow on the minds of younger students in Ghazni province.
Xi urges Afghanistan’s neighbors to support Afghans
MONITORING (SW) – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan to do their best to support the Afghan people to create a brighter future.
AFJM paints grim picture of press freedom, free speech
KABUL (SW) – The Afghanistan Federation of Journalists and Media has painted a grim picture of press freedom in the country.
Government employees directed to grow beard, wear cap
MONITORING (SW) – The Islamic Emirate’s Ministry of Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting the Evil has confirmed that last month it sent a letter to all government departments asking officials there to grow beards and wear skull caps.
Mutaqqi in Beijing to attend regional conference on Afghanistan
KABUL (SW) – The interim foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate, Amir Khan Mutaqqi has reached Beijing to attend a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries’ foreign ministers.
World Bank puts four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold
MONITORING (SW) – The World Bank has put four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold amid concerns over a decision by the country’s ruling Islamist leaders to ban girls from returning to public high schools, the bank said.
Afghans must not be forgotten, UNDP head tells the world
MONITORING (SW) – Achim Steiner, director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has called on the leaders of the Islamic Emirate to reconsider their decision on girls’ education and press freedom.
Landsliding claims three lives in Maidan Wardak
MAIDAN CITY (SW) – At least three people got killed and two more injured following a landsliding in Maidan Wardak province on Tuesday, confirmed officials.
Foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries to meet in China
MONITORING (SW) – Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host the third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan’s Neighboring Countries in China on March 30 and 31. Analysts said the meeting will focus on humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and call on the US to return the Afghan people’s assets.
Head of Salam Watandar partner radio arrested in Kandahar
KANDAHAR CITY ( SW) – The local head of a Salam Watandar radio network partner station in Kandahar has been kept in custody by the forces of the Islamic Emirate for hours before being released.
