The World Food Programme (WFP) says three million children suffer from malnutrition in Afghanistan currently and it could support one in three malnourished Children across the country. On its X social media handle the WFP said: “Children bear the brunt of the assistance cuts, Sustained funding is vital. But we can only support 1 in More
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has decided to release 42 Afghan prisoners from various prisons of the country, the Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Thursday. In a statement, MoFA said the UAE government had decided to release 42 Afghan prisoners as a result of continuous efforts of the Afghan Embassy in that More
In a blunt warning, US President Joe Biden has said he will stop shipments of American weapons to Israel if it launches a massive invasion of Rafah city. For the first time on Wednesday, Biden acknowledged Israel had used some American-supplied weapons to kill civilians in Gaza. CNN quoted the US leader as saying: “Civilians More
Dr Alam Khan, an Afghan professor at the University of California, the United States, has praised the Taliban’s decision not to reduce pension of retired government servants and says he will present a plan in this regard in future. The expert said his plan about giving pensions to retired public servants needed creation of a More
Three policemen were killed and five others injured when a bomb-rigged motorcycle hit their convoy in northeastern Badakhshan province on Tuesday, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said. Badakhshan Information and Culture Director Zabihullah Amiri told Pajhwok Afghan News a sticky bomb affixed to a motorbike was detonated in Jozon area of Faizabad city at 11:00am More
The government of Iran has decided to impose fines on employers of illegal foreigners, including a large number of Afghans. Under the new regulation, an employer wound be fined 1.2 million tomans for hiring illegal foreigners, IRNA reported. Iran’s Directorate General for Employment of Expatriates and the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare said More
Afghanistan have gained 30th spot in the latest FIFA Futsal World rankings and this represents a significant jump from their previous rankings of 45th globally and 8th in Asia. At the top of these rankings, Brazil holds the first position, followed by Portugal and Spain. FIFA announced the latest rankings on Monday. The Afghanistan Football More
President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday formally approved the appointment of governors for Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The gubernatorial appointments have been made in line with a power-sharing formula agreed between the Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N. Faisal Karim Kundi, Sardar Jafar Khan Mandokhel and Sardar Saleem Haider have respectively been named More
About 1.3 million illegal Afghan refugees were deported to their country from Iran during the past one year, Iran’s Interior Minister said on Monday. Ahmad Wahidi in a media interview said: “For preventing illegal refugees into Iran, the rules should be amended in the parliament”. He said the deported refugees used to re-enter Iran from More
Ten alleged terrorists have been killed in separate exchanges of fire in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. Six suspected terrorists were shot dead and their hideouts busted during an intelligence-based operation in North Waziristan district of KP on Saturday, the military said. The Balochistan Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) said four terror suspects were killed after More
