Islim Cheshma, Turkmenistan – AFP Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighbouring Turkmenistan to celebrate its completion on that side of the border. Progress on the TAPI pipeline — running through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan an...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani and Afghan security forces once again clashed at the border after the Afghan Taliban attempted to build a check post, Afghan media reported. Heavy firing took place between two countries’ security forces in the Zazi district of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, Tolo News reported. “Clashes erupted between ...
Germany has deported 28 Afghan nationals back to Afghanistan. This is the country’s first deportation flight since the Taliban re-took control of the country in 2021. The deportees were previously convicted of crimes and residing illegally in Germany. They were sent home following a fatal knife attack in the city of Solingen on August ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Afghanistan has urged Pakistan to reopen a key border crossing between the two neighbors for trade to avoid “huge” financial losses, as over 2,000 trucks of vegetables and fruits are stranded, causing massive financial losses for exporters. Northwestern Torkham, one of the two key trade crossings betw...
BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised new measures to prevent irregular migration but ruled out suspending asylum rights, amid calls from opposition parties for a drastic overhaul of migration policy. “The individual right to asylum will remain in place. This is in our constitution, and nobody can get my support to cha...
ANKARA (AA) – Afghanistan and Uzbekistan on Saturday inked a string of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) worth $2.5 billion, state media reported. Some 35 agreements in energy, agriculture, and manufacturing sectors were signed by Uzbekistan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economi...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan that remained closed for three days following skirmishes has reopened, an official confirmed. The Torkham border, which connects Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, was shut down on Monday after...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The interim administration in Afghanistan has announced an end to acknowledging any consular services from several of its missions in Europe. A statement by the Foreign Ministry in Kabul said the Afghan political and consular missions in several EU nations have refused to directly engage with the interim administration. “...
Shast Bandari, Afghanistan — AFP Chinese engineers and the Taliban government broke ground in Afghanistan on a project to mine the world’s second-largest copper deposit after a 16-year delay caused by war. Surveyors estimate Mes Aynak, 40 kilometres southeast of Kabul, contains 11.5 million tonnes of copper ore, a vital electronics...
Kabul, Afghanistan — AFP Flipping his flailing judo sparring partner to the mat, Afghanistan’s judoka Mohammad Samim Faizad is the only Olympic athlete training for the Games in the country. Six Afghans — including three expatriate women– will compete at the Paris Olympics this month in cycling, athletics, swimming and ...
