Afghanistan’s diplomatic mission’s websites in Canada, Italy, Switzarland and Germany have been shut down. The development comes after the Taliban in a statement said that services of some countries in Europe were not acceptable for them. Views: 4

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Taliban to lift restrictions on women and girls. In response to such calls, the caretaker government has consistently claimed preserving women’s rights in the framework of the Shariah law. In a post on X, HRW said: “As the Paris Olympics begin, millions of women and girls in Afghanistan More

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MoEA) has announced that it will continue to issue visas to Afghan citizens. At a recent press conference,MoEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal reaffirmed India’s commitment to granting visas to Afghans. Responding to a query, he said: “While I don’t have the exact numbers at hand, I can confirm that visas More

In a rare occurrence, a mother in central Daikundi province has given birth to quintuplets for the first time. But two of the five babies did not survive. Dr. Ghani Samim, Director of the Public Health Department in Daikundi, said that the mother delivered the quintuplets at Zahra Bayat Hospital in Neili City, the provincial More

The Public Health Department of eastern Nangarhar province has recorded 1,914 cases of scabies in 25 outbreaks during the past seven months. Health officials said scabby breakouts since late March reached 25, which showed a significant spike in the cases of the unpleasant skin infection. Patients who have scabies complain about itchy skin and redness More

As many as 42,000 bottles of low quality syrup were sent back to Pakistan after being imported to southeastern khost province, officials said on Tuesday. Food Inspector at Khost Food and Drug Administration Dr. Gulzar said they denied entry to hundreds of low quality medicines and food items after evaluation at the central laboratory. According More

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reports 292 civilians have fallen victim to landmines and explosive remnants of war in Afghanistan in the first six months of the current year. In a statement on X, OCHA wrote: “Since 1989, 45,000 Afghans have been casualties of landmines and explosive remnants of More

Iran executed eight prisoners condemned to death, including an Afghan and a woman, a human rights group Hangao said on Monday. In a statement, Hingao said these on death row people were executed in prisons of Karaj and Shiraz on Sunday. Mahdi Ali Akbari, Daood Barahawi and Sayeed Mohammadpur an Afghan, were sent the gallows More

US Embassy Chargé d’affaires Karen Decker has said during the third UN meeting on Afghanistan envoys reiterated demands for human rights, women rights and an effective counterterrorism strategy. Addressing roundtable with Afghan media representative on July 22, she said that UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peace building Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo welcomed the independent assessment on More

Canberra is looking for ways of compensating the families who were unlawfully killed or abused by Australian forces in Afghanistan, a media report said on Sunday. Compensation was one of the recommendations from the damning 2020 Brereton report, which found “credible information” that Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel were involved in serious crimes. The crimes More