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Nepal, Qatar agree to revise 2005 Labour Agreement

Nepal, Qatar agree to revise 2005 Labour Agreement
Kathmandu, Dec 3 (RSS): Nepal and Qatar have agreed to revise the Bilateral Labour Agreement. In the fourth meeting of the Nepal –Qatar Joint Committee, both parties agreed to revise the 2005 pact. The Qatar side has accepted Nepal’s proposal for its support for socio-economic reintegration of those Nepali migrant workers returned from Qatar serving as one of the top... Read More

Kidnapped child freed in N. Afghanistan: official

Kidnapped child freed in N. Afghanistan: official
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Dec. 3 (Xinhua): A kidnapped eight-year-old girl, daughter of a physician, was freed following a raid in Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh on Thursday, a provincial police source confirmed on Friday. “The raid was launched by special forces of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Dihdadi district, in the south of provincial capital, Mazar-i-Sharif. One kidnapper was killed and... Read More

Clearing Afghanistan’s landmines one careful step a time

Clearing Afghanistan’s landmines one careful step a time
NAD-E-ALI, Afghanistan, Nov 24, 2021 (AFP) । Weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, families who fled the fighting in one southern village returned home to find something strange: the cricket ground had been circled in rocks painted red and white. White, it turned out, meant it was safe for children to play. But red signalled buried landmines and other... Read More

Blast in Afghanistan’s Khost province kills 1, wounds 17

Blast in Afghanistan’s Khost province kills 1, wounds 17
KHOST, Afghanistan, Oct. 7: One person has been confirmed dead and 17 others were injured as an explosive device went off in a religious school in Khost city, capital of eastern Khost province on Wednesday, a provincial official said Thursday. The official, Mawlawi Mohammad Sabir Sabari, said the blast took place in Mazharul Alum Madrasa (Mazharul Alum religious school) late... Read More

A number of schools reopen in Afghanistan: education ministry

A number of schools reopen in Afghanistan: education ministry
KABUL, Sept. 18 (Xinhua): Afghan boys’ secondary schools, high schools and madrassas, or seminary schools, reopened on Saturday more than one month after Taliban’s takeover of the capital Kabul, the country’s Ministry of Education said. “Boy students and male teachers of all private and government-run secondary, high schools and madrassas are asked to return to schools in all 34 Afghanistan’s... Read More

10 million Afghan children need humanitarian assistance to survive: UNICEF

10 million Afghan children need humanitarian assistance to survive: UNICEF
Kabul , September 18 (ANI): The United Nations Child Fund (UNICEF) reported that ten million Afghan children need immediate help as they lack access to sufficient food, medicine and drinking water. According to UNICEF, due to a lack of access to basic needs, many children are malnourished they must lie in hospital beds, reported Tolo News. “Today in Afghanistan there... Read More

11 Nepalis rescued from Afghanistan arrive home

11 Nepalis rescued from Afghanistan arrive home
Kathmandu, Sept 10 (RSS): As rescue operation for the Nepalis stranded in Afghanistan continues, 11 Nepalis arrived home on Thursday. With this, a total of 906 Nepalis stranded in Afghanistan have been rescued and brought home, according to a statement issued on Thursday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry also said that coordination with the concerned authorities is... Read More

War in Afghanistan now over, will announce govt in few days, says Taliban

War in Afghanistan now over, will announce govt in few days, says Taliban
Kabul , September 7 (ANI): Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid on Monday said that the war in Afghanistan is over and an announcement about the formation of the new government will be made in the next few days. “The war in Afghanistan is over, now we will work together to rebuild this country,” said Mujahid at a press conference in Kabul,... Read More

Taliban rule won’t last long in Afghanistan, says Amrullah Saleh

Taliban rule won’t last long in Afghanistan, says Amrullah Saleh
Kabul , August 29 (ANI): The former Afghan government first Vice President and self-proclaimed acting President Amrullah Saleh on Saturday told that the Taliban rule won’t last long in Afghanistan. In an interview with Euronews, speaking from the Panjshir Valley he said, “The law of the Taliban is Islamic Emirate, unacceptable to the people of Afghanistan and the election of... Read More

Trump says Biden not following his Afghanistan plan

Trump says Biden not following his Afghanistan plan
Washington , August 15 (ANI): Former US president Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden for his handling of the Afghanistan situation saying that the Democrat leader had not followed his plan of withdrawing US-led international troops from the war-torn country. In a statement released on Saturday, Trump said, “He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our administration... Read More