Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan next month: PM

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) head Nawaz Sharif would return to the country next month and face the...

Over 80% of female journalists in Afghanistan left their jobs: RSF

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has recently said in a new report that more than two-thirds of the 12,000 journalists in Afghanistan have abandoned their profession. RSF...

Muttaqi meets with UNAMA’s head in Kabul

Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and the head of UNAMA, Roza Otunbayeva, discussed the continuation of positive interaction on Thursday between the United Nations and...

Biden calls China a ‘ticking time bomb’ due to economic troubles

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called China a “ticking time bomb” because of its economic challenges and said the country was in trouble because of...

Rocket with lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s 1st moon mission in nearly 50 years

A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead...

Mullah Baradar meets Turkey’s foreign minister 

The Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to discuss various issues including regional relations,...

200 flood affected families receive food aid in Paktia

The Natural Disaster Management Department in Paktia says at least 200 flood-affected families have been provided aid in the province. Nisar Ahmad Nijat, head of the...

Tahawol: Iran’s concern over Afghanistan’s situation from becoming critical

Saar: Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami chief’s call for reopening of girls’ schools

Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami chief calls on IEA to reopen girls’ schools and universities 

Sirajul Haq, Chief of Pakistan’s Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) says the daughters of some ministers of the Islamic Emirate are studying in foreign universities and...

Zardari: Return of the IEA emboldened TTP

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister says that the return of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has emboldened the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has been implicated in...

New substation inaugurated in Balkh province

Chief Executive Officer of Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, Alhaj Mullah Muhammad Hanif Hamza inaugurated the new Chamtal substation worth $800,000 in Balkh province this week. The...

Iranian diplomat says US ‘perpetuating’ instability in Afghanistan

A senior Iranian diplomat has accused the United States of deliberately perpetuating instability in Afghanistan with the aim of creating crises for neighboring countries. In an...

IOM reopens Kabul office after two year suspension

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reopened its office in Kabul, two years after closing. The office was reopened on Wednesday and is situated at...

Pakistan parliament dissolved to hold national election

Pakistan’s parliament was dissolved by the president on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s advice late Wednesday night, the president’s office said, setting the stage for a national...

Forty-one feared dead in migrant shipwreck in central Mediterranean

Forty one migrants are thought to have died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, Italian authorities and United Nations agencies said on Wednesday,...

North Korea’s Kim dismisses top general, calls for war preparations

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced the military’s top general and called for more preparations for the possibility of war, a boost in weapons production,...

Tahawol: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar’s trip to Turkey reviewed

Saar: IEA’s reaction to Pakistan’s recent comments

Afghani strengthens by 4.4% against US dollar: central bank

Officials of Afghanistan’s central bank said Wednesday the afghani (AFN) has in the past year strengthened by 4.4 percent against the US dollar. This comes after...