Afghan economy has shrunk, country receives $80 million every 14 days: ReportThe Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has released a report highlighting that millions of dollars in cash sh...
21 Jan, 2024, 11.56 AM IST
India to send 20,000 metric tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan via Chabahar portThe situation in the war-ravaged country came up for extensive deliberations at the first meeting of the India-Central Asia joint working g...
07 Mar, 2023, 09.15 PM 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
India sends fresh consignment of 3,000 tonnes of wheat to AfghanistanWith the new consignment, India has completed sending 33,500 metric tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan in partnership with the World Food Progr...
26 Jun, 2022, 12.11 AM IST
Pakistan grants two months extension to India for transportation of wheat, medicines to AfghanistanForeign Office said that the time period granted for transportation of the humanitarian assistance expired on March 21 and the Government o...
17 Apr, 2022, 10.52 PM IST
No direct threat of Taliban expansion into neighbouring states, says CSTO Secretary-GeneralZas indicated that against the backdrop of socio-economic crisis and humanitarian collapse unfolding in Afghanistan, these threats attain a...
09 Feb, 2022, 04.35 PM IST
India's wheat shipment to Afghanistan via Pakistani soil to begin in early February: ReportIndia has been pitching for providing unimpeded humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to address the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country...
29 Jan, 2022, 12.54 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
Ready to deliver urgent grain, medicines to Afghanistan: IndiaIt may be recalled that India has given grants of around three billion USD for various reconstruction projects in Afghanistan over the last...
19 Nov, 2021, 06.38 AM IST
Discussion underway with India over humanitarian food assistance for Afghanistan: UN's WFPResponding to a question if the WFP made a formal request for aid from India, Cecilia Garzon said there is a "positive discussion" underway...
13 Nov, 2021, 11.51 AM 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
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
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
Pakistan facing difficulties in providing help to Taliban government in Afghanistan without its recognition: ReportThe biggest challenge for the Afghan administration was the void created by a major exodus of technical and financial experts soon after th...
29 Sep, 2021, 01.23 PM IST
Donors pledge $1.2 billion in emergency funds for AfghansAt the first high-level conference on Afghanistan since the Taliban took power a month ago, Western governments, big traditional donors and...
14 Sep, 2021, 08.27 AM IST
Europe fears Afghan refugee crisis after Taliban takeoverHaunted by a 2015 migration crisis fuelled by the Syrian war, European leaders desperately want to avoid another large-scale influx of migr...
21 Aug, 2021, 02.02 PM IST
Estimated 2,70,000 Afghans newly displaced since Jan due to violence, insecurity: UNThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is "warning of a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as the escalating con...
14 Jul, 2021, 09.43 AM IST