In a significant ceremony on August 18, senior officials from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan gathered at the Ministry of Defense in Kabul to celebrate the 105th anniversary of Afghanistan's independence. This pivotal date marks the formal recognition of independence achieved in 1919 under King Amanullah Khan, following the signing of the Rawalpindi peace agreement.
Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mullah Abdul...
The spokesman said on Thursday that Taliban wants good diplomatic relations with all countries, including the United States.
He also called on people not to leave the country in crisis.
Attending the ceremony, other Taliban officials spoke, saying the opportunity should be used for country’s development and welfare.
They emphasized on forming an inclusive government in Afghanistan.
Taliban urge the international community to recognize them as foreign...
It has meanwhile distributed 419,612,925 doses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Those figures are up from the 357,894,995 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Aug. 17 out of 417,477,975 doses delivered.
The agency said 199,325,940 people had received at least one dose while 169,186,268 people were fully vaccinated as of Wednesday.
The CDC tally, as of 6:00...
According to the data collated by The Killid Group, the Government’s Emergency Committee for Prevention of COVID-19, in addition to failing to distribute aids to the people in need, has spent some five million Afghanis of funds for other expenses rather than expenses related to combating the novel coronavirus.
Officials in the government’s emergency committee claim that of some AFG500 millions that were allotted...
Tariq Arian, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI), said Thursday, the armed Taliban have carried out 16 suicide attacks and blown up168 bombs across the country during this period.
According to the spokesman, at least 134 civilians have been killed and 342 others wounded in these attacks.
The recently scaled up violence have gripped the country already ravaged by decades-long war.
The...
Afghanistan’s National Statistics and Information Authority announced today that mothers’ names will be printed on national identity cards but is “optional”. Ahmad Jawed Rasuli, Director General of the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) said addressing a press conference on Wednesday, September 23, that under a signed legal amendment act, mothers’ names will be included on children’s national ID cards that carry only...
