Pakistan’s impending gas crisis this winterPakistan government is reluctant to take the risk of purchasing gas from Iran and Russia, fearing international sanctions, and is now showi...
19 Nov, 2022, 10.11 AM IST
Taliban accuse US of 'usurping' Afghanistan's frozen assetsThe new Afghan Fund, based in Geneva, will not provide humanitarian assistance but will be put in charge of core central bank functions suc...
15 Sep, 2022, 07.20 PM IST
China says no limit for cooperation with Russia as Sergey Lavrov arrives for talks amid Ukraine warLavrov arrived in Tunxi, east China's Anhui Province, for the third meeting of foreign ministers on Afghanistan, Russia's official news age...
30 Mar, 2022, 10.19 PM IST
Afghan acting PM calls for official recognition of Taliban administrationAfghanistan's acting prime minister, Mullah Hasan Akhund, on Wednesday called for international governments to officially recognise the cou...
19 Jan, 2022, 11.56 AM IST
Taliban deputy PM calls for aid without 'political bias'The Taliban appealed on Friday for emergency humanitarian aid without "political bias", saying recent snow and flooding had worsened the pl...
07 Jan, 2022, 08.35 PM IST
Afghanistan's tumultuous year and uncertain futureThe Taliban's astonishing return to power caught everyone on the wrong foot -- not least the hardline Islamists themselves -- and Afghans a...
27 Dec, 2021, 09.16 AM IST
View: People of Afghanistan facing catastrophic crisis. Who cares?It is not that Afghanistan doesn't have money to buy food to feed its starving masses and pay the salaries to run essential services. The U...
24 Dec, 2021, 07.34 AM IST
Pakistan to allow India to send wheat to Afghanistan through its territory: PM Imran KhanKhan, who chaired the first Apex Committee meeting of the newly established Afghanistan Inter-ministerial Coordination Cell (AICC) in Islam...
22 Nov, 2021, 09.40 PM IST
India wants to send wheat to ease Afghan hunger crisis. Pakistan has yet to OK transit.Despite agreeing to help Afghanistan, the souring relationship between India and Pakistan is getting in the way of 50,000 tons of Indian wh...
13 Nov, 2021, 11.33 PM IST
Afghanistan could face severe food crisis in harsh winterThe Taliban, whose financial reserves came from illegal activities, are proving completely incapable of funding social services and food as...
13 Nov, 2021, 09.04 AM IST
Afghanistan 'at brink of economic collapse', warns PakistanShah Mehmood Qureshi spoke at the opening of the so-called "troika plus" meeting, which included Thomas West, the new US special envoy for ...
11 Nov, 2021, 07.53 PM IST
More than half of Afghans face 'acute' food crisis: UN agencieshe crisis is already bigger in scale than that facing Yemen or Syria, and worse than any food insecurity emergency apart from the Democrati...
25 Oct, 2021, 03.16 PM IST
UN World Food Programme in talks with India for wheat donation to AfghanistanMary-Ellen McGroarty, the WFP country director in Afghanistan, said that discussions have taken place over the last two weeks and she hoped...
07 Oct, 2021, 07.46 PM IST
Kabul faces blackout as Taliban falters on electricity bills paymentDomestic production has been affected by this year's drought. As per the report, Afghanistan lacks a national power grid, and Kabul depends...
04 Oct, 2021, 10.50 AM IST
Afghanistan on verge of socio-economic collapse, EU's top diplomat saysAfghanistan is facing a breakdown of its economic and social systems that risks turning into a humanitarian catastrophe, the European Union...
03 Oct, 2021, 04.49 PM IST
As need in Afghanistan grows dire, aid groups plead for helpAround 18 million Afghans, almost half the population, are now in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to the International Fe...
02 Oct, 2021, 10.40 AM IST
- India to overlook Karzai taint, Krishna to attend inauguration
In a show of support for the Afghan government, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna will travel to Kabul to attend President Hamid Karzai’...
18 Nov, 2009, 05.42 AM IST