The European Union (EU) has contributed €13 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the United Nation International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) announced on Monday. In a statement, UNICEF said: “Over 78,000 children in Afghanistan will benefit from additional funding for nutrition and education in emergencies from the European Union’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)”. More
The dead bodies of five Afghans, who were killed by unidentified individuals in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province last week, have been handed over to their families. The Afghan Embassy in Islamabad wrote on its X handle the corpses were handed over to the bereaved families at the Spin Boldak crossing as a result of efforts More
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel to push for achieving a ceasefire in Gaza and end the 10-month-old conflict. This is the ninth trip of the top US diplomat to the region since the conflict erupted in October. The US put forward bridging proposals with Qatar and Egypt playing as mediators, More
King Amanullah Khan formally announced the independence of Afghanistan from the British India on this day 105 years ago. Afghanistan gained independence from the British under the leadership of Amanullah Khan on 18th of August 1919. Amanullah Khan, a freedom-seeking king of Afghanistan, signed the Rawalpindi Peace Agreement on August 8, 1919 to put an More
The Torkham crossing was temporarily shut once again on Saturday (today) by Pakistani guards, officials in eastern Nangarhar province said. Nangarhar police spokesman Hafiz Abdul Baseer said Pakistani security guards found a landmine on their side of the Durand Line and then launched a clearing operation in the area. Baseer said: “The crossing has been More
Three children have died following a poisoning incident involving eight family members in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Saturday. Maulvi Najibullah Hanif, the director of Information and Culture, said that the poisoning occurred in the Gambir area of the district on Friday. Of the eight affected family members, three More
The Torkham crossing has reopened for trade and passengers after four days ofclosure, officials announced on Thursday. The key land route, a major commercial hub, between Afghanistan and Pakistan had been closed on August 11 after a clash between security forces in the Ghorki area of Momand Dara district. Nangarhar’s police spokesman Hafiz Abdul Basir More
At least 20 members of the Sikh minority from Afghanistan have been granted Indian citizenship, says a media report. Having applied online more than three months back, they were given Indian nationality under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 in the past one week. Some of them, who had arrived in India in 1997, continued More
The United States (US) has contributed 280 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Thursday. This funding will allow WFP to support more than three million hungry people with life-saving food assistance and treat more than 900,000 malnourished children and women. WFP said in a statement the funding More
US State Department Deputy spokesman Vedant Patel has called on the Taliban to substantially improve their human rights record before any normalizations of relations. He told at press briefing that to date no country had publicly announced that it recognized the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan. He added: “We continue to – in close More
