News Afghanistan Paktika: Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, Qatar says
Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in more than a week of fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Qatar and Turkey mediated the negotiations, the statement added. Afghanistan denies harboring militants who carry out attacks in border areas.
News Afghanistan Paktika: Death toll in Afghanistan’s flash floods climbs to 38
The State Ministry for Disaster Management says the death toll in the recent flash floods across central and eastern parts of the country has increased to 38. In addition, 57 people have been injured in the floods and at least two people are still missing. According to the ministry, floods affected residents of eight provinces.
News Afghanistan Paktika: Afghanistan: Taliban-appointed official claims 152 schools in Paktika lack buildings
Abdul Qayom Faroqi urged international organisations to help with the construction of buildings for the schools.
News Afghanistan Paktika: Afghanistan: 152 schools in Paktika lack buildings
Abdul Qayom Faroqi, head of the Paktika Department of Education, said 152 schools in the Afghanistan region lack buildings.
News Afghanistan Paktika: Taliban taken control of four districts in Ghazni and Paktika provinces of Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, Taliban have taken control of four districts in two provinces in the last 24 hours. According to the sources, the centers of Khwaja Omari, Muqor and Waghaz districts in Ghazni Province ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: Afghanistan: 27 security personnel killed in Paktika
In Afghanistan, at least twenty seven security force members have been killed in clashes with Taliban militants in southeastern Paktika province. Provincial council members said clashes, which are ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: 2 People Publicly Flogged In Afghanistan's Paktika
(MENAFN- Khaama Press) Taliban's Supreme Court has announced that two convicts accused of allegedly stealing in the Khusamand district of eastern Paktika ... authorities of Afghanistan to ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: Attack on journalists blow to freedom of expression in Afghanistan: UN
Bennett said he is closely monitoring the attack on the gathering aimed at awarding journalists at Tebyan Cultural Center in northern Mazar-e-Sharif province. The UN Special Rapporteur emphasized the need for increased security measures for journalists in Afghanistan.
News Afghanistan Paktika: Blast in northern Afghanistan kills at least one
An explosion during an award ceremony for journalists in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province has killed at least one person and wounded eight others, according to a Taliban police spokesman.
News Afghanistan Paktika: Afghanistan Seeks New Air Corridors
Last month, Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban’s minister of industry and commerce, stated that Afghanistan’s export volume to neighboring countries had increased compared to its import volume and ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: Bomb kills 1, wounds 5 at press award event in Afghanistan
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — A bomb exploded on Saturday during an award ceremony for journalists in Afghanistan’s Mazar-e- Sharif city, killing at least one person and wounded five others ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: IS claim responsibility for suicide bombing on senior Taliban governor in Afghanistan
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed the governor of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province and two other people at his office. The regional ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: GOP-led House panel to hold hearing on Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold its first hearing Wednesday morning on what Republicans are calling the Biden administration's "stunning failure" of leadership during the military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
News Afghanistan Paktika: Afghanistan dispatch: ‘Women and children in vast numbers can be seen scavenging for food on the streets to support their families.’
Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the ... organizations are really helping the indigent population. The failure of financial institutions like the Afghan ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: Survivors of Afghanistan's deadly earthquake gifted new homes in Paktika after months spent living in tent cities
Afghan labourer Rasool Badshah has moved into a new home six months after a deadly earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan ... Survivors of the earthquake say Paktika had been neglected by ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: Natural disasters lead to deaths, financial losses in 2022
At least 182 people lose their lives over the span of a month in Afghanistan due to flood disasters in different provinces. Sept. 3 France suffers the most fatal heatwave in the last 19 years this ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: UN asks IEA to probe issue of missing Afghan women
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to ensure the release of women activists who have been “reportedly abducted from ...
News Afghanistan Paktika: After fleeing Afghanistan with very little, a family begins to make Memphis home
Mohammad, Nazaka and Rahmatullah Watandost left Afghanistan as the Taliban took over the country, with nothing but the clothes they were wearing.
