Afghanistan

China will resume issuing visas to Afghans from August 1 and allow 98 percent of Afghan imports to enter tax free, it was reported on Friday.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the measures when he met Afghan Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Uzbekistan on Thursday, Reuters reported citing a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry.

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A former security force member, Rahmani, who had interrogated and investigated Anas Haqqani while he was in a Kabul prison returned to Afghanistan recently and met up for a chat.

Haqqani, who was in prison in Kabul for five years before being released in November 2019, said Rahmani had been his interrogator while in prison.

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India&s external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday discussed the crisis in Afghanistan and said the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) must help combat the hunger crisis in the country.

Addressing the SCO foreign minister&s meeting in Tashkent, he said that India has extended humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan to help it...

Residents in Helmand say that although the government has launched the second phase of the Kajaki Dam power plant project the water level is too low to generate the expected 150 MW of electricity needed to service Kandahar and Helmand provinces.

This they said was due to the ongoing drought in the area.

Kandahar authorities have said they hope this...