According to Indian government’s official data, the south-Asian country recorded 401,078 new cases of the COVID-19 over the past 24 hours. The new cases pushed the total case count to 21.9 million. It also reported a record 4,187 daily death toll, bringing the overall toll to 238,270. It was the first time India records more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a day. The south-Asian nation is...
Representatives from the U.S., the European Union, NATO and a number of other European countries met on Thursday in Berlin. Following their meeting, these representatives issued a statement in which they called on the Afghan government and the Taliban to resume their substantive talks immediately. “Participants urged the immediate resumption, without pre-conditions, of substantive negotiations on the future of Afghanistan.” There are needs for the talks...
Armed men on Thursday morning [10:30a.m.], Afghanistan time, shot and killed Nemat Rawan, former media and government official in the twelfth district of Kandahar city, Jamal Nasir Barekzai, spokesman for Kandahar police chief, confirmed to TKG. He was former TV anchor working for TOLOnews and employee of the Finance Ministry. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the murder. ...
COVID-19 infections in the world's second most populous nation have surged past 21 million, with a death toll of 230,168, health ministry data show. With hospitals scrabbling for beds and oxygen in response to the surge in infections, the World Health Organization said in a weekly report that India accounted for nearly half the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week and a quarter of...
One was injured after a car hit a roadside bomb in Ahmad Abad district of Paktia province Wednesday evening, said police spokesman Mohammad Lal Amiri. Afghan civilians continue to bear the brunt of the violence across the country. Elsewhere, the spokesman added the Taliban had attacked security outposts in Jan Khel district of the province. There was no casualties inflected to Afghan forces, according to the...
Mohammad Tahir, company commander for protection of Afghanistan’s National Assembly, has been killed in Afghan capital’s first district, said Mir Rahman Rahmani, Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament (Wolesi Jirga). He condemned the attack, blaming “enemies of the country” for the murder. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. ...
The U.S. National Intelligence Council report likely will reinforce fears that the Taliban will resume the harsh treatment that women and girls suffered under their 1996-2001 rule should the insurgents prevail in a full-blown civil war. "The Taliban remains broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to women's rights and would roll back much of the past two decades of progress if the group regains...
Ferdaws Faramarz, a spokesman for the Kabul police confirmed the attack took place in Kalakan district, north of Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul. He put the casualty figures to one dead and three wounded, adding the wounded were rushed to hospital. According to the spokesman, efforts were underway to identify type of the bombing. There was immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. ...
According to Afghan health ministry, as many as six more patients have died after contracting the disease, pushing the toll of fatalities to 2,654. The new deaths were registered in Kabul, Kunduz, Laghman and Kunar provinces. Also, as many as 234 new cases of infection were reported in the country, bringing the nationwide case count to 60,797. The new infection cases were registered in Kabul and...
In a statement the government authority said heavy spring rains in recent days caused damages to residents of Herat after it triggered flash floods in several districts. In Adraskan, a district in central part of Herat province, twelve people, including a woman and four children, died. Providing assistance and distributing aid to affected people were underway, according to the statement. The flash floods caused damages to...