Afghanistan



Afghanistan&s Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs said Thursday that efforts are underway to decrease the rate of unemployment in the country.

Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Mawlavi Makhdoom Abdul Salam Sadat in a meeting with directors of the ministry said that employment opportunities will be created through projects...

An Afghan man was convicted by a Dutch court on Thursday of war crimes and torture for abusing political opponents at Kabul&s Pul-e-Charkhi prison in the 1980s and was sentenced to 12 years in jail.

Judges said the man, 76, who had been calling himself Abdul Rafief, was actually Abdul Razaq Arif who served as commander of the prison between...

The outlook for Afghanistan&s economy is dire with per capita income having fallen by over a third in the last four months of 2021 after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) seized power and foreign forces withdrew, the World Bank said on Wednesday.

&One of the poorest countries in the world has become much poorer,& said...