Tag: Afghans

#Pakistan News Ajji Wali Jan brought a half-dozen plastic containers to the well in Kamar Kalagh on a recent Friday – one of the handfuls of days each week he and those who live on his side of this Afghan village are allowed to use the water source. When ...

KABUL, Afghanistan Peace is slowly returning while an economic crisis is quickly growing in Afghanistan, a landlocked South Asian country that was mired in conflict for decades.Following the withdrawal of US forces and the Taliban’s takeover of the capital Kabul in August this year, the group announced an end to ...

HERAT, AFGHANISTAN —  Over the course of an hour on a recent night, the bus waiting in the Herat station filled with passengers. Mostly young men, they had no luggage, just the clothes on their backs, maybe a bag with some bread and water for the long road ahead ...

#Pakistan News Conflict, economic hardships and an uncertain future pushes thousands of Afghans a day to flee their country for a better life elsewhere. Over the course of an hour on a recent night, the bus waiting in the Herat station filled with passengers. Mostly young men, they had ...

HERAT, Afghanistan: Over the course of an hour on a recent night, the bus waiting in the Herat station filled with passengers. Mostly young men, they had no luggage, just the clothes on their backs, maybe a bag with some bread and water for the long road ahead of ...

Chaos, failure to allocate resources, fatal delays at critical times, and a lack of communication in Whitehall severely damaged the British government’s Afghan evacuation operation, according to a whistleblower. Tens of thousands of pleas for help from those under threat went unanswered in a system incapable of handling the ...

ISTANBULThe United Nations on Wednesday urged all countries to stop deporting Afghans, expressing “profound concern” over escalating risks faced by people in the war-torn country.“We call on the authorities of all countries to immediately cease the forced return of Afghans, many of whom may be in need of refugee ...

WASHINGTONFacebook's parent company said Tuesday that the social media firm has taken action against a Pakistani hacker group that targeted people who were affiliated with Afghanistan's former government in its final days.The Pakistani hacker group SideCopy "targeted people who were connected to the previous Afghan government, military, and law ...

There are fewer than 100 American citizens in Afghanistan who are ready to leave, according to the State Department, and Blinken said Friday that there are a "couple hundred" more who, for now, want to stay.But in addition to those Americans there are countless Afghans, including thousands who worked ...

#Pakistan News The Norwegian Refugee Council, a NORWAY-based aid organization, announced that 4-5 thousand Afghan refugees have crossed into Iran every day since August, when the Taliban took control of Kabul. The Secretary General of the Organization, Jan Egeland, stated that approximately 300,000 Afghans left the country by crossing ...