Former president Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has performed Umrah in Saudi Arabia in his first trip outside the United Arab Emirates since his government collapsed in 2021. Ghani traveled to the UAE after his government in Kabul collapsed in 2021 and he has since been living there. Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwari shared a video which shows More
More than 20 people have been killed in a landslide in the Noorgram district, of eastern Nuristan province, local officials said on Monday. Eighty houses were destroyed in the incident, Information and Culture Director Maulvi Samiul Haq Haqbayan said. The landslide took place in the Nakra village of Tatin Valley last night due to heavy More
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday during ongoing meeting of envoys said there was consensus among delegates over what needed to happen in Afghanistan, a statement said on Monday. Addressing reporters, he said: “We want an Afghanistan in peace, peace with itself and peace with its neighbours and able to assume the commitments and the international More
The second UN-led meeting on Afghanistan, bringing together special envoys from various countries, has started behind closed doors in Doha. Qatar hosted on Sunday the meeting, with the participation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Doha said in a statement. Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed bin More
US Special Envoy Rina Amiri has held a meeting with Deputy UN Secretary General Amina Mohammed and discussed support to Afghan women and human rights situation in Afghanistan, according to a statement on Saturday. On her Twitter handle Amiri said: “on the importance of supporting Afghan women & human rights, concurred that the extreme policies More
The World Bank’s (WB) executive board has approved $300 in fresh funds for Afghanistan and the grant would be paid out through the International Development Association (IDA). The new funding would be deployed “through grants to United Nations agencies and other public international organizations, the WB said in a statement. The Bank’s new engagement with More
Special representatives of Central Asian countries and the European Union (EU) are all set to hold a meeting on Afghanistan today (Wednesday) in Bishkek. Last week, EU special Representative Tomas Niklasson told a press conference during his four-day trip to Kabul that the political, economic and humanitarian situation in Afghanistan would be discussed at the More
Corpses of about 100 people have been found in a mass grave in southeastern Khost province. Provincial officials say the bodies were discovered from an area near the Sheikh Zayed University during the construction of a check dam. The mass grave, discovered two days ago, was dug up in the presence of locals and municipality More
US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s foreign reserves would remain frozen beyond February 11. Biden issued the original executive order on the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the threat arising from it on February 11, 2022. In an order posted to the White House’s website, Biden said: “The widespread humanitarian crisis in More
Several rights organizations have appealed to the UN Secretary-General to give Afghan women’s rights a priority in the UN-convened meeting in Doha on Feb. 18-19. In a letter, spearheaded by Kaavya Asoka, Executive Director of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, urged the inclusion of diverse Afghan women in the Doha discussions. More
