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 […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven Pakistani policemen have been abducted while eight suspected militants and a soldier have been killed in hours-long clashes in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Suspected militants kidnapped seven policemen in Bannu district, near the restive North Waziristan tribal region tha...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Washington, United States – AFP Donald Trump was embroiled in controversy Wednesday after a report that his entourage shoved staff during a politicized visit to the United States’s most hallowed resting place for its war dead. National Public Radio reported that an Arlington National Cemetery official tried to prevent the Republica...
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. “...
