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Taliban hope to create jobs in Afghanistan with development projects
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 15 (ANI): Afghanistan's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on Thursday said that efforts are underway to decrease the rate of unemployment in the troubled country by creating employment opportunities through projects including Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-I
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Afghanistan: UNHCR official expresses hope for coeducation to bring peace
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Inaugurating a school in Afghanistan's Kandahar, deputy commissioner of the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) Yumiko Takashima expressed hope that boys and girls study together to bring peace in the country's future.
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Da Afghanistan Bank lifts limitations on salary withdrawal
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Afghanistan's central bank - Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) on Wednesday lifted limitations on salary withdrawal of government and private employees.
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French MPs call for further imposition of sanctions on Taliban over violat
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Over 50 French Parliament Members asked the country's president Emmanuel Macron to impose further sanctions on the Taliban over the violation of women's rights in Afghanistan.
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Religious scholars in Paktika province urge Taliban to reopen girls' schoo
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Amid the worldwide condemnation of the Taliban regime's diktat to ban girls from attending school over sixth grade, a group of religious scholars assembled in Afghanistan's south-eastern Paktika province calling for reopening of schools for girls.
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Taliban takeover disrupted private sector business in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban caused not only political crisis in the country but also uncertainty in business and unemployment.
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Afghanistan: EU Parliament Member asks Taliban to lift ban on girls' educa
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Taking a grim view of the ongoing human rights violations in Afghanistan, Hannah Neuman, a German member of the European Parliament, called for urgent measures to lift the ban on the exclusion of the girls from the schools.
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Private sectors 'hit hard' by political crisis in Afghanistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Amid a political crisis in Afghanistan since the Taliban's takeover last August, the private sectors of the country have been hit hard as the businesses were halted, reported local media citing a survey conducted by the World Bank.
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Road accident in southern Afghanistan leaves 18 injured
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): As many as 18 people were injured after a pick-up truck overturned in Zabul province of southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Xinhua reported citing a local source.
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Quadrilateral meeting over Afghan refugees to be held next month in Kabul
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): A quadrilateral meeting with officials from Kabul, Tehran, Islamabad and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be held next month in a bid to address the hardships faced by the Afghan refugees, said the Ministry of Refugees and Re
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Taliban smuggling weapons to Pakistan to be used in cross-border skirmishe
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Contrary to its claim that the Taliban will not allow Afghanistan or the weapons to be used for terrorism, the group has been reportedly accused of smuggling weapons to Pakistan, which eventually may be used in cross-border skirmishes against India. Read More
French MPs call for sanctions on Taliban officials over school ban for gir
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 13 (ANI): French Parliamentarians have called for sanctions on Taliban officials in response to the ban on school girls above grade sixth imposed by the Islamist outfit in Afghanistan.
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