Khalid Payenda, 40, had served as Afghanistan's Finance Minister in the Ashraf Ghani government. He blamed himself and fellow Afghans for the swift collapse of the democratically elected government to Taliban.
The United Nations has called the situation "a food insecurity and malnutrition crisis of unparalleled proportions."
India had sent a proposal to Islamabad on October 7 seeking the transit facility to send 50,000 tonnes of wheat to the people of Afghanistan via Pakistan. It received a positive response on November 24. Following this, both sides were in touch to finalise the modalities for the transportation of the shipment.
The discussion, between PM Modi and the delegation, also included the difficulties faced by them in Afghanistan and the help extended by the government in bringing them to India safely.
Today marks six months since the Afghan capital of Kabul was ceded to the Taliban with the sudden and secret departure of the country's US-backed president.
International funding to Afghanistan was suspended and billions of dollars of the country's assets abroad, mostly in the United States, were frozen after the Taliban took control of the country in mid-August.
The report says the dreaded Islamic State terrorist group aims to position itself as the “chief rejectionist force” in Afghanistan, expands into neighbouring Central and South Asian countries and is viewed by the Taliban as its primary armed threat.
One person was missing after the late Sunday avalanche near the Pakistani border, said Najibullah Hanif, who heads Kunar province's information and culture department. The landslide followed a day of heavy snow.
After their evacuation from the Taliban-led nation, the women's team is looking to compete in Victoria’s senior women’s competition this year and held its first training session in Melbourne on Saturday.
On Tuesday, Amnesty International said that the arrest of the two journalists was "unjustifiable" and called on the Islamic Emirate to release them.
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.
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