Torkham, Afghanistan — AFP The main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan has reopened to pedestrians and vehicles, more than a week after it was closed following a gun battle between frontier guards. There have been several border closures after clashes between Pakistan and Afghan forces since the Taliban returned to power in...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – A convoy of paramilitary soldiers was targeted in a roadside bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing one security official and injuring eight others. Superintendent of Police Mohammad Arshad Khan confirmed that a vehicle of the Frontier Constabulary was hit in the attack on Machni Road in Peshawar, the...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained closed to all traffic for the second day on Thursday following a clash between the two countries’ forces. The Pakistan Army and Afghan Taliban forces had exchanged heavy fire on Wednesday, resulting in the closure of the Torkham border, the main point of [&h...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The interim Taliban administration has invited foreign and domestic investors to invest in Afghanistan, pledging security across the country, tax cuts, and no bureaucratic red tape. Steps are being taken to develop a five-year comprehensive national economic strategy to boost Afghanistan’s war-torn economy and attract foreign ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Waheed Arian’s life has been shaped by the kindness and compassion of strangers. Now a successful doctor, he arrived in the UK as a 15-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, thousands of miles away from home in an unfamiliar land. When he needed a roof over his head, a refugee let Arian sleep on […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Domestic, Asian, and European companies Thursday signed seven major mining contracts worth around $6.5 billion with the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan. The contracts were signed in Kabul between the war-torn nation’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and private companies from Afghanistan, Türkiye, Iran and China, ...
ANKARA (AA) — Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government has rejected a UN Security Council report claiming that several terrorist groups, including ISIS, are present in the country and have access to weapons left by US-led foreign forces. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan once again rejects these baseless accusations and . . . in ...
GENEVA (AA) – Afghans living in Switzerland who no longer have valid papers are entitled to a special Swiss passport, the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration has announced. The decision by the State Secretariat was preceded by a court ruling in July which stated that it was impossible for Afghans to obtain papers from their […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The interim Afghan government on Tuesday denied a UN report that alleged the Kabul administration had killed and tortured people after its takeover on Aug. 15, 2021. The UN report detailed 800 cases of extrajudicial killing, arbitrary arrest, torture, and forced disappearance involving former Afghan government affiliates and se...
