As many as 419,000 Afghan decedents currently living in Germany marking it the 3rd biggest diaspora of Afghans outside Afghanistan, according to a study on Tuesday. The number of Afghans living in Germany has increased significantly over the last decade, especially since 2022, the German Council of Experts on Migration and Integration said. In 2023, More
Afghanistan became member of the United Nations family 78 years ago on November 19, 1946, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Tuesday. On X, UNAMA wrote: “Pictured is envoy, Abdol Hosayn Aziz, signing the instrument of adherence to the UN Charter”. “Alongside Iceland & Sweden, the Afghan people became proud members More
The Afghan ambassador in Berlin, appointed by the former government, and consul general in Bonn have resigned their jobs. Yama Yari, the ambassador to Germany appointed by the previous administration, had stood down. Yari said in a statement considering the political position of the host country and its request, he had decided to step down. More
Former US Special Representative for Afghanistan Peace Process Zalmay Khalilzad has said that the Doha Agreement was the only formal pact for interaction between the new US government and the Taliban. Addressing a gathering at Florida University, the former US envoy said the Taliban adhered to the Doha agreement and it could be the basis More
Afghanistan’s Consulate in Mumbai started distributing passports to Afghan citizens in India on Monday. The consulate in Mumbai, which recently started functioning, wrote on X it started issuing passports to Afghans in the country today. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) announced the consulate would be providing consular services to Afghan citizens in India More
A fatal fire killed three people, injured 33 others and reduced to ashes 12 companies, 64 houses, 55 shops and 12 vehicles in Paghman district of Kabul province on Wednesday. In a statement, the disasters management department said based on survey of evaluation teams, three people had been killed and 33 injured due to the More
The British government says it is letting “eligible” Afghan special forces members resettle in the UK, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Around 2,000 Afghans, who served with the British specialist units, had been barred from relocating to the UK by the previous administration. But a subsequent review found some applications had been wrongly rejected, Defence More
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has declared the Pashtun Qaumi Jirga in Khyber ‘a success’, calling the assembly an effective step to solve problems in the region. Karzai’s office wrote he was happy with the “successful conduct” of the Pashtun National Assembly in Khyber and called it a good and effective step to resolve problems. More
The dead bodies of seven Afghans, who were killed in an armed attack on a coalmine in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province last week, have been handed over to their families. At least 20 miners, including the Afghans, were killed and seven others injured in the attack on the private coalmine in the Daki district of More
Twenty-five Afghans have returned to the country after being released from jails in Iraq, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Saturday. MoRR wrote on its X platform, the 25 individuals were freed from police custody following efforts by the Afghan Embassy there. It said these Afghans spent up to six months in More
