Ghani fled Kabul with less than a million dollars, says report

Ghani fled Kabul with less than a million dollars, says report

The SIGAR report, compiled based on interviews of at least 30 former officials, including those close to Ghani, suggests a little over $500,000 million in cash on board the helicopters. Significantly, the fund that Ghani took away was not the government fund but was the leftover amount that the UAE government had provided to Ghani to support his 2019 presidential campaign.

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Mistreatment of Afghan refugees adversely affecting ties with Iran, says Taliban foreign minister

Since the Taliban takeover last year, over one million Afghans have sought refuge in Iran, taking the total number of Afghan refugees in the country to a whopping five million

Women entrepreneurs push for revival of women-led businesses in Afghanistan

By 2019, a total of 17,369  businesses were owned by women—most of them were less than five years old then—and created around 129,000 jobs in the country, according to a study conducted by Afghanistan’s Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry

EU expresses ‘deep concern’ over ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan, asks Taliban to reverse restrictions

EU lawmakers also deplored the steadily deteriorating situation of women and girls in Afghanistan since the Taliban's return to power in 2021

Iran sending back 3000 refugees daily to Afghanistan as their numbers soar to five million

Since August last year, when the Taliban came to power, over a million Afghans fled to Iran, taking the total number of Afghan refugees in the country to almost five million

Taliban bans poppy cultivation with eye on recognition and development assistance

Over the past four decades now, the poppy has become an integral part of the country’s informal rural economy, primarily due to the relatively stable income that it provides in challenging times

Make a ‘clear break’ and ‘dismantle terror groups’: Regional countries talk tough on Afghanistan, seek ‘inclusive’ government

Wang, who visited Kabul last week,  also suggested promoting  “greater trilateral practical cooperation” among China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in the field of politics, development, and security to promote mutual and common interests for the benefit of the people

World Bank freezes Afghan projects; HRW asks not to ‘punish all Afghans’ for ‘Taliban abuses’

The punitive move, however, will hurt more common Afghans than those intransigent leaders of the Islamist regime

Now Taliban bans employees without beards and traditional local dress from offices

Since its return to power last year, the ultra-conservative group has imposed several restrictions—banning senior girls from education, segregation of public spaces like parks and offices, restricting women’s freedom to travel alone, and now banning male employees without beards— in an attempt to return to their hardline Islamist rule of the 1990s

‘Open the doors of girls’ schools’, chant Afghan women, protesting Taliban ban

Over two dozen protesters, mainly women, and girls, on Saturday took out a rally in Kabul and marched to the Taliban’s Ministry of Education, demanding of their rulers not share in power or representation—something witnessed in previous protests - but only reopening of schools for girls

Hardliners triumph: Taliban backtracks on its promise, orders closure of girls' high schools

Multiple media reports said girls in Kandahar and other provinces were not allowed to enter their schools on Tuesday by local Taliban leaders, despite a clear order from the central authority

All schools for girls in Afghanistan to open from next week, says Taliban

In what comes to a big relief for Afghan girls, the Taliban, Afghanistan’s de facto authority, said they will open all schools—both for boys and girls—from next week in the country

Sans music and female cast, Taliban controlled Afghan film company screens two documentaries

Afghan Film, Afghanistan’s state-run film production company, now controlled by a Taliban grandee, screened two documentaries as “entertainment programs” - but without featuring any female actor and music, a stark reminder of the tectonic cultural and social changes the country has gone through when the Islamists seized power in August last year

ISKP militant from India reportedly killed in Afghanistan

An ISKP militant from the southern Indian state of Kerala has died in Afghanistan, possibly as a suicide bomber, the group said in its latest publication, without giving details on the circumstances around the attack he died in

India should re-open its embassy in Kabul; it can play an important role, says former Afghan president Karzai

When asked if the Taliban would be able to provide security guarantees if India re-opens its embassy, Karzai said, “Absolutely.”

No family has enough to eat: Afghan crisis may surpass our ability to provide assistance, warns World Food Program

At least 23 million of the total 37 million people, roughly two-thirds of the population, are facing acute hunger