By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, April 11, 2023 at 10:49 PMThe World Food Program (WFP) said that it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghanistan, which is at the highest risk of famine in a quarter of a century. Wahid Amani, a spokesman for the WFP, said the organization needs funds to continue humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. The World Food Program noted that women aid workers play a vital…
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by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, December 29th, 2022ISLAMABAD: Amid a rise in terror attacks across the country, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday linked the resurgence of terrorism with what he called the “reversal of PTI government’s policy on Afghanistan”. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the former information minister said Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari did not understand the situation in Afghanistan. He added if the situation in Kabul deteriorated it would have…
AFP in Dawn, Dec 27th, 2022LONDON: Christian Aid and ActionAid on Monday became the latest foreign aid groups to suspend operations in Afghanistan after the country’s Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working. Announcements by the two groups take to six the number of bodies who have paused their operations in the country. Christian Aid was “rapidly seeking clarity… and urging the authorities to reverse the ban”, head of global programmes…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 12th, 2022• ISPR says ‘measured response’ given to uncalled-for aggression, which injured 16• Kandahar official says one security man killed, 13 injured on Afghan side• FO says such incidents not ‘in keeping with brotherly ties’• Border crossing closed for a few hours QUETTA: At least seven people lost their lives and 16 others suffered injuries on Sunday in Chaman, which came under heavy gunfire and artillery shelling by Afghan…