Search For "afghanistan"
Earthquake leaves 31 injured in eastern Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Paktika [Afghanistan], July 19 (ANI): A total of 31 people have been injured in the earthquake that hit Afghanistan's Paktika on Monday, media reported citing province authorities.
Read More
Engagement with Kabul or Indian overtures to Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): India's overture to the Taliban has come in the midst of what appears to be a softening of the Taliban's attitude towards the US, its bugbear.
Read More
Pakistan, China mull extending CPEC to Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 19 (ANI): Pakistan and China are mulling the possibility of extending the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan, a development that may prove to be a security concern for India.
Read More
Earthquake of 4.7 magnitude rocks Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 19 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 shook Afghanistan at 06:40:00 IST on Tuesday.
Read More
5.1 and 4.3 magnitude earthquakes hit Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 18 (ANI): Two earthquakes hit Afghanistan's east and northeast regions on Monday evening, local media reported.
Read More
Taliban issues new diktat, tells female employees to send male relatives a
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 18 (ANI): Taliban on Monday issued a new diktat against female employees and told them to send male relatives as their replacements.
Read More
Bahrain's RHF to distribute relief aid for earthquake-affected Afghans
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 18 (ANI): The Royal Humanitarian Foundation (RHF) of Bahrain has entered into an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to distribute relief aid to support people in Afghanistan affected by the recent earthquake.
Read More
Drug smuggler arrested, 70 Kg poppy seized from Afghanistan's Badakhshan p
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 18 (ANI): A drug smuggler was arrested and 70 kilograms of opium poppy were confiscated from his possession in the northern Badakhshan province, media reports said citing the state-run Bakhtar news agency.
Read More
50-year-old woman stabbed to death in Afghanistan's Kapisa province
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 18 (ANI): Fifty-year-old woman was brutally stabbed by unidentified men in the central Afghan province of Kapisa on Sunday which reflects how criminal activities in Afghanistan have been on a constant rise since the Taliban took control of the country in August.
Read More
Afghans call for reopening of girls' senior secondary schools
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 17 (ANI): Several Afghans are voicing a clarion call for the immediate reopening of senior secondary schools for girls in Afghanistan on Sunday.
Read More
Biden, Saudi Crown Prince discuss Afghan women's rights
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 17 (ANI): US President Joe Biden who visited Saudi Arabia this week as part of his first Middle East trip as commander-in-chief discussed and analysed Afghan women's rights, which have been badly curtailed since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, with Saudi Ar
Read More
Rights activists urge world leaders to pressure Taliban on girls' educatio
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 17 (ANI): Several human rights and education activists urged world leaders in an open letter recently to mount diplomatic pressure on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools for girls in the war-torn country as the Taliban's brutal regime in Afghanistan will soon co
Read More