17-year-old Nila Ibrahimi has won the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize for her advocacy of girls’ rights in Afghanistan. Awarded in Amsterdam on Nov. 19, Ibrahimi was praised for her courageous work in championing the rights of Afghan girls amid the Taliban’s oppressive rule. After the group’s return to power in 2021, Ibrah...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI (AA) – At least 12 security personnel and six militants were killed in a suicide bombing and ensuing clashes in northwestern Pakistan, the army said on Wednesday. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a security check post in the Mali Khan area of the Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province before […]
LONDON (AA) – Finland’s Non-Discrimination Ombudsman has said that the country’s refugee quota plan is discriminatory on religious grounds. The assessment came after the government announced that it will reduce the number of refugees accepted from Muslim-majority countries while increasing the number from Christian countries. According t...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Afghanistan has received around $6.7 billion in humanitarian aid since the Taliban returned to rule in Kabul in August 2021, according to a report released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). With resources peaking at nearly $3.3 billion in 2022, the funding coincided with record...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistani and Afghan border forces exchanged a fresh round of firing at the southwestern border on Wednesday, state-run Pakistan Television reported. Citing unnamed security sources, the broadcaster reported that the clash began at the Nushki border, which connects Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province with ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The FBI has arrested an Afghan man living in Oklahoma City who was allegedly planning a “terrorist attack” in the US on Election Day, the Justice Department said. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, allegedly plotted to target large crowds during the presidential election on November 5 with firearms and ammunition, according...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Six Pakistani military personnel, including a high ranking officer, and eight militants were killed in two separate clashes in northwestern Pakistan, the army has announced. A clash between security forces and militants took place in the Spinwam area of North Waziristan district near the Afghan border, killing six military per...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) — The Pakistani army has said that its forces killed at least eight ‘suspected militants’ during an intelligence-based operation near the Afghan border in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Security forces conducted the operation in the Razmak area of North Waziristan district upon the reported prese...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Taliban-led interim Afghan administration will recruit some 1,500 women in the education sector, according to a media report. The interim Education Ministry has announced around 8,165 posts in teaching and administrative positions, Kabul-based Tolo News reported. Eligible candidates from 24 provinces across Afghanistan will...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia on Thursday stripped its military officers of distinguished service medals over war crimes in Afghanistan, local media reported. Announcing the decision in parliament, Defense Minister Richard Marles said he stripped a number of current and former defense officers of medals over alleged war crimes that happened un...
