Denmark, South Korea contribute $10m to support Afghan education

Kabul: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) announced that Danish and South Korean contributions totaling $10 million have been made toward the education of children in Afghanistan.UNICEF’s Afg...

6th Moscow Format meeting calls for moderate Afghan governance

ISLAMABAD: The 6th meeting of Moscow Format of Consultations on Afghanistan called for moderate, prudent and inclusive governance of the de facto authorities of Afghanistan to protect the basic rights and interests of all the Af...

06-Oct-2024 Read More

Russia decides to remove Taliban from terrorist list

MOSCOW: The Russian foreign ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been “taken at the highest level”, the state TASS news agency reported. The decision nee...

05-Oct-2024 Read More

Gender, nationality ‘sufficient’ to grant Afghan women asylum: top EU court

BRUSSELS: The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Friday that gender and nationality alone were sufficient for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban have sharply curtailed women’s r...

05-Oct-2024 Read More

Regional response

It is welcome that Afghanistan’s neighbours are speaking with one voice when it comes to the critical issue of terrorism emanating from the Taliban-ruled state’s soil. At the third meeting of the Quadrilateral group on the s...

04-Oct-2024 Read More

Taliban’s battle with Daesh opens door to foreign cooperation

KABUL (AFP): Afghanistan’s Daesh group is staging a growing number of bloody international attacks, presenting a rare but complicated opportunity for foreign cooperation with the Taliban government to counter the jihadists. ...

04-Oct-2024 Read More