Former central bank governor Abdul Qadir Fitrat has passed away due to his illness in the Virginia state of the United States. Abdul Shakur Waqif Hakimi, a former member of parliament from Badakhshan province, wrote on his Facebook page that Fitrat passed away on Sunday evening. He added: “He (Fitrat) had been suffering from cancer More

A senior US diplomat has embarked on a five-day trip to Qatar and Pakistan for talks on the current situation in Afghanistan, says the State Department. John Bass, America’s acting under-secretary of state for political affairs, would meet senior Qatari officials and other diplomatic missions to discuss support for Afghanistan and shared security interests in More

The Pro-Republic Democratic Movement of Afghanistan (PDMA) has stressed negotiated settlement, establishment of a legitimate government in Afghanistan and urged that military and armed struggle did not produce meaningful results to bring peace and stability in Afghanistan. In a letter to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the PDMA stressed meaningful dialogue under constitutional order which More

Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has said the issue of girls’ education belongs to the Afghans and they themselves would address it. Haqqani, who met a delegation of Afghan scholars and culturists living in in European Countries, said the government of the Islamic Emirate (IEA) did not like to listen to dictation from others about More

The Iranian government has executed four Afghan refugees, including two brothers, over drug trafficking charge in the Vakilabad prison of Mashhad, says a human rights group. Halvsh identified the individuals as Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri , Ghulam Qadir Samani and Ibrahim Noorzai. Zaman Taheri and Salam Taheri were brothers. The refugees, arrested in 2019, had More

Security forces have freed a woman locked up in a dark bathroom for ten years by her relatives in southern Ghazni province, officials said on Wednesday. Information and Culture director Maulvi Mansoor Afghan said that the 36-year-old victim Shamsia had been imprisoned in Andar district for the past 10 years. Shamsia was incarcerated in a More

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Pakistan next week for discussions on a wide range of issues, including bilateral security cooperation and the situation in Afghanistan. The two-day trip, beginning on April 22, will be his first foreign visit following Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone onslaught on Israel late on Saturday. Raisi is the first More

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says a possible ban on Facebook in Afghanistan will further impede the free flow of information in the country, but the Taliban says FB has itself restricted freedom of expression and does not allow issues related to the Taliban to be published. The Committee to Protect Journalists said it More

Result-oriented discussions have been suggested between Afghanistan and Pakistan to check the poliovirus. Coordinator to Prime Minister on National Health Services (NHS) Dr. Malik Mukhtar Ahmed floated the suggestion on Tuesday. He called for Kabul-Islamabad talks on the issue during a meeting with Michael Galway and Hamid Jafri of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation More

Nine children have been killed as a result of an old mine explosion in the Giro district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Monday. Information and Culture Director Maulvi Mansour Afghan said the war-era mine exploded as children played in the Zadran village of the district on Sunday afternoon. He said the nine More