Ahmad Shah Erfanyar

A woman in central Maidan Wardak province has given birth to quadruplets, with two of the babies in good health and as many ending up in the ICU.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Foreign ministers of some European countries have expressed concerns about human rights and women rights situation in Afghanistan and asked authorities to end systematic gender persecution, according to a statement on Sunday.

Last week, security officials of the regional countries met in Bishkek for discussion on Afghanistan, World Bank (WB) announced $300 million aid  and pledged resumption of Central Asia South Asia (CASA)-1000 project in the country.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Custom officials in southwestern Nimroz and southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces have recovered smuggled goods from Pakistan into Afghanistan and prevented the smuggling of scrap to Pakistan, according to a statement on Monday.

Two Afghan prisoners, who were held in US custody for at least 14 years at the Guantanamo Bay prison, were released from house arrest in Oman.

Last week, the European Union special envoy for Afghanistan discussed the upcoming Doha meeting with Afghan officials.

An agreement worth over $247.4 million for the extraction of one-half of the third block of lead and zinc mines in Ghor’s Shahrak district has been signed with a domestic company.

Azerbaijani businessmen have expressed their interest to invest in different sectors in Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has called sanctions on Afghan officials ‘unfair’ and said that the caretaker government had met all the conditions for recognition.

Two consecutive earthquakes hit Afghanistan’s remote northeastern Badakhshan province on Friday morning.

Many fake social media pages have been created in names of key figures and politicians in the previous and current government, sowing hate, hostilities, prejudice and differences in the nation.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan says the United Kingdom has contributed GBP 28.7 million (US$36.5 million) to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF).