Afghanistan

A 35-year-old Muslim community religious leader hailing from Afghanistan was shot dead by a group of unidentified persons in Yeola town of Maharashtra&s Nashik district in India on Tuesday, police said.

According to TheIndianSubcontinent, the motive behind the murder was not immediately known.

The incident took place in the evening at an open...

A senior official of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has said that the financial crisis is the main reason for girls& schools being closed.

&I think the main issue is the economic problem… all our funds are frozen outside the country,& Qalandar Ebad, the acting health minister, said in an interview with the BBC.

He...

The Commission to Fight Land Grabbers has started the process of reclaiming usurped land in Herat, officials confirmed Tuesday.

Hundreds of thousands of acres of government land has been usurped by powerful people over the past few years, and the process of reclaiming the land has started in different areas of Herat city.

In the latest case, about...

Three days ago, a joint government and private sector delegation led by Nooruddin Azizi, acting minister of commerce and industry, arrived in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, for talks with Uzbek officials on expanding trade, facilitating transit and solving problems of Afghan businessmen.

The Afghan delegation said that in their meetings with...