Gunfire, explosions heard near Afghan grand assembly ‘loya jirga’ in Kabul
Chaos erupted in Kabul as several explosions and gunfires were reported close to the hall where the ‘Loya Jirga’ or the grand assembly of religious...
Taliban ban BBC’s local language services in Afghanistan
The Taliban have banned BBC television news in three main languages of Afghanistan from being broadcast, the British news organisation said. A spokesman for the...
Britain to co-host Afghanistan aid summit, hoping to raise $4.4 billion
Britain said on Tuesday it would co-host an international aid conference with the United Nations next month to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan,...
India in touch with Pakistan on modalities for shipping wheat as aid to Afghanistan
India said on Thursday it continues to be in touch with Pakistan on modalities for supplying 50,000 tonnes of wheat as humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan...
From academic to labourer: Afghan economic crisis spares few
Unpaid for months and with many mouths to feed, Afghan assistant professor Khalilullah Tawhidyar recently found temporary work on a building site. With the 300...
State Dept, Pentagon are concealing Afghanistan data, says U.S. watchdog
A U.S. government watchdog on Friday accused the State Department and Pentagon of suppressing information that lawmakers and the public need to understand the collapse...
‘Children are going to die’, U.N. agency warns as Afghanistan verges on collapse
Millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from the brink of collapse, a senior...
Afghanistan hurtling towards collapse, Sweden and Pakistan say
Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Swedish and Pakistani ministers warned on Saturday. Afghanistan plunged into crisis after the...
‘Afghans know who were better friends’: Jaishankar slams Pak for aiding terror
Union external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said Afghanistan people know how to draw a contrast between India and Pakistan based on the amount of...
Taliban asks to address UN after Afghanistan takeover
The Taliban wants its envoy to address the annual United Nations General Assembly’s high-level meeting of world leaders this week, a UN spokesman said on...