As per details, families of at least 150 victims of the 9/11 attacks have staked claim to at least $7 billion in frozen assets held by the Federal Reserves of New York.
According to the law of the country, selling organs or parts are the body is illegal, but these families say that they have no other options to survive.
A Taliban intelligence official in western Herat said that the bomb was attached to the van's fuel tank. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to release the information to the public.
It marks the first public release of video footage of the August 29 strike, which the Pentagon initially defended but later called a tragic mistake.
Biden, however, expressed his sympathy for the crisis in Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of the nation in mid-August.
A number of vendors said the closure of Boli has led to dozens of vendors losing their jobs and will lead to problems determining the real value of the Afghani against foreign currencies.
A viral video posted by Abdulhaq Omeri, a senior journalist in Afghanistan, shows a Taliban militant pointing a gun and laughing at the musician while another was recording a video of the situation.
According to reports, unidentified people killed a money changer in Heart and 5 members of a family were killed in Laghman and injured a sixth, according to Pajhwok Afghan News.
Officials in Afghanistan power body said that decrease in importing electricity from Uzbekistan has caused a shortage of electricity and blackout in 16 provinces including Kabul, the report said.
"Our aircraft that are in Tajikistan or Uzbekistan should be returned. We will not allow these aircraft to remain abroad or to be used by those countries," the Taliban defense minister said.
White House spokesperson Emily Horne said in a statement Tuesday that the new aid from the US Agency for International Development will flow through independent humanitarian organizations and will be used to provide shelter, health care, winterisation assistance, emergency food aid, water, sanitation and hygiene services.
As part of our ongoing humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people, India supplied the third batch of medical assistance consisting of two tons of essential lifesaving medicines to Afghanistan today," said the Ministry of External Affairs press release.
Many of Afghanistan’s growing number of destitute people are making desperate decisions such as these as their nation spirals into a vortex of poverty.
Ending 20 years of war in the country, 2021 became the year that Kabul fell into Taliban rule. Here is a detailed timeline of how things went south fast in Afghanistan.
Recently, a senior Chinese minister expressed his deep concern about the "complex and intricate" Afghan situation that terrorist groups including ISIS and Al-Qaeda are using to expand their presence in the region.
4 months into Taliban rule, Afghanistan is facing a looming economic meltdown and humanitarian catastrophe. Billions of dollars’ worth of country’s assets abroad, mostly in US, have been frozen and international funding to the country has ceased.
With the new directives, several dozen Afghan women on Tuesday protested against the new directives of the Taliban putting limitations on their movement. Women protestors said that the Islamic Emirate is keeping women away from society.
Referring to regional connectivity initiatives, the countries asserted that such projects should be based on the principles of transparency, broad participation, local priorities, financial sustainability and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries.
Officials of Sara-i-Shahzada, the largest money changers market in Afghanistan, were quoted by the government-run Bakhtar News Agency as saying that the value of $1 has dropped from 130 afghani to 102 afghani following a joint meeting of government officials and money changers with Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the country's central bank on Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
A declaration released at the end of the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan said Afghan territory should not be used for sheltering, training, planning or financing any terrorist acts and that officials lent strong support for a peaceful, secure and stable Afghanistan.
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