An unknown contagious illness has killed two people and affected 500 others in Kafshan valley of Parwan’s Shinwari district. The governor’s office quoted officials of the Public Health Department as confirming the breakout of the unknown disease in the Kafshan valley of Shinwari district. The disease is spreading fast, affecting 500 people, with 50 in More

Two workers have lost their lives in a goldmine collapse in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Sunday. Police spokesman Ehsanullah Kamgar said the incident took place on Saturday afternoon. The victims’ bodies were pulled out and handed over to their families by police. Earlier in the week, three miners from the same province More

Drivers and local residents in southeastern Khost province say the Ghulam Khan crossing has been closed for trucks and other vehicles for the past four days. The route closure follows intermittent clashes between Afghan and Pakistani security forces. Local businesspeople and drivers complain they have incurred significant losses due to the route’s closure. Najibullah, a More

The Ghulam Khan crossing point has been closed after a clash between Afghan and Pakistani forces resulted in the death of one driver in southeastern Khost province. Officials reported that the clash happened around 6:00pm on Thursday when Afghan forces engaged in a verbal dispute with Pakistani forces over the mistreatment of a driver. Bahaijan More

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold a meeting on the current situation in Afghanistan on Wednesday. UNSC in its Programme and World announced the meeting on Afghanistan would kick off at 10am (New York time). The session will include briefings from Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Sima More

Five Afghans, including two brothers, have lost their lives after inhaling poisonous gas in a coalmine in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province. The incident occurred in the Shahrag coal field in Harnai district on Saturday when six coalminers went deep into the private coalmine. As the Afghans started digging coal, methane gas accumulated inside the mine, More

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has removed its special envoy to Afghanistan Asif Durrani, says a media report. The Express Tribune reported Durrani was relieved of his diplomatic assignment with effect from 10 September, 2024. The ambass­ador has been removed from his position due to differences over the Afghanistan policy, Dawn quoted a diplomatic source More

Following a request from the host country, the embassy of Afghanistan in Oslo will be closed on September 12, officials said on Tuesday. Earlier, Afghan Ambassador in London Zalmai Rassoul, who was appointed by the previous government, wrote on X Britain had requested the closure of Afghanistan’s embassy by September 27. A statement from Afghanistan’s More

Following a request from the host country, Afghanistan will close its embassy in London on September 27, says a senior diplomat. Afghan Ambassador to the UK Zalmai Rassoul wrote on X the decision had been made on the basis of a request from the British government. Rassoul said the embassy of Afghanistan in London was More

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has expanded its investigation into America’s chaotic pullout from Afghanistan, a media report said on Sunday. The powerful congressional panel had contacted three senior military officers involved in evacuating tens of thousands of individuals from Kabul in August 2021, when the IEA returned to power, an influential US newspaper reported. More