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
On the eve of the Taliban third anniversary of coming to power for the second time, some girls urged the reopening of schools and universities for girls and women in line with Sharia law. After returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban suspended girls’ schools above class sixth and then extended the ban to More
A protest against newly-enforced travel condition for truckers has forced the suspension of trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan via the Torkham crossing. The bilateral trade came to a halt on Monday when truckers and customs clearing agents blocked the road leading to the ‘Zero Point’ to protest the imposition of the Temporary Admission Document condition. More
The World Peace Jirga (WPJ) has underlined the imperative of removing excessive curbs on trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Businesspeople, transporters, customs clearing agents and other stakeholders attended the event at the Landikotal Jirga Hall on Wednesday. Speakers called for easing people’s movement between the neighbouring countries via the Torkham crossing to improve Afghanistan-Pakistan relations. More
The Iranian government has executed at least 29 convicts, including two Afghans, in a single day, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights announced on Thursday. The Iran Human Rights (IHR) wrote on its X handle 26 men were executed in Ghezelhesar Prison in Karaj outside Tehran, while three others were put to death in the city More
