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Taliban confirms prisoner swap with US
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 19 (ANI): Afghanistan's acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi on Monday confirmed that the Taliban has freed an American engineer in return for an Afghan leader in a prisoner swap between the two countries.
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Taliban to ban TikTok, Pubg within next 3 months
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 19 (ANI): Taliban is going to ban TikTok and Pubg applications in Afghanistan within the next 3 months times, media reports said citing an announcement by the Taliban-led telecommunication department.
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Exclusion of girls from high school has no credible justification: UNAMA
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 18 (ANI): As the closure of schools for girls in Afghanistan completed one year on Sunday, the acting head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Markus Potzel said that the ongoing exclusion of girls from high schools has no justif
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Pakistan, Afghanistan relations take nasty turn after cricket clash, Duran
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 18 (ANI): When Kabul fell to the Taliban, many in Pakistan cheered and saw it as an opportunity to strengthen relations between the two Muslim countries. However, relations took a nasty turn.
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Rising prices burn Afghans pockets as the country witnesses economic turmo
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 18 (ANI): Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the residents continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing economic crisis as the prices of vegetables have tripled over the last few weeks making it tough for common Afghans to afford food stuff on daily ba
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Ex-Afghan Prez Karzai condemns killings in Panjshir province, says "blood
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 18 (ANI): Amid a continued surge in killings in Panjshir province of Afghanistan, former president Hamid Karzai slammed the Taliban for clashes in the region between the National Resistant Forces (NRF) and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and said it is about tim
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Taliban deplores US' decision to transfer frozen Afghan funds into Swiss-b
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 18 (ANI): Taliban on Thursday condemned the decision of the Biden administration to transfer the frozen Afghan funds into a Swiss-based trust and said that the US is violating international norms.
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Over 50,000 Afghan refugees deported from Iran in past months
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): Over 50,000 Afghan refugees were deported from Iran in the past month, the country's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) confirmed on Friday.
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Iran's Chabahar port crucial for landlocked Afghanistan trade
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): Landlocked Afghanistan faces many issues related to trade as it has to cross Iran or Pakistan to reach water ports as the seaports accelerate the rate of international trade and act as an inhibitor in trade cost.
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ISIS, Al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan puts world in grave danger: Ex-advis
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): The rapid growth of ISIS and the Al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan has put not only Afghanistan but also the region and the rest of the world in grave danger, John Bolton, a former adviser to the US National Security Council said in an interview with Vo
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90 pc Afghans in online poll supports reopening girls' schools as Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): About ninety per cent of voters in Afghanistan supported the reopening of schools for girls beyond grade six, and 10 per cent opposed the decision, as per an online poll conducted by Afghanistan's local media outlet TOLO news.
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US 'usurped' Afghanistan's USD 7 billion assets, claims Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 16 (ANI): Taliban have accused the United States of having usurped the Afghan assets after they announced to release USD 3.5 billion of frozen money of Afghanistan as humanitarian aid for the poverty-stricken country.
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