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Afghanistan’s Taliban government has unveiled plans to bolster the country’s tourism industry, Sputnik Afghanistan reported on May 6. According to a report released by the Taliban government’s statistics department, from April 2023 to April 2024, a total of 14,478 men and 675 women with foreign citizenship entered Afghanistan. This influx of tourists represents a notable

New Delhi  —Afghanistan’s top diplomat in India resigned days after she was reportedly caught by airport authorities smuggling nearly $2 million worth of gold into the country. Zakia Wardak, the Afghan Consul-General in India’s financial capital Mumbai, posted a statement on social media announcing her resignation. Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi shut down in November,

Afghanistan’s only female diplomat has resigned days after she was caught by airport authorities allegedly smuggling nearly £1.6 million of gold into India. Zakia Wardak announced her resignation on social media after Indian media reported that she and her son had been stopped last month on arrival in Mumbai from Dubai carrying 25kg of gold.

According to a report by the  Iran Ministry of Roads & Urban Development, following the disruption of the Afghanistan-Turkey cargo train through Iran’s territory due to the mismanagement of the Afghanistan Railway Development Consortium regarding the completion of the customs formalities, Afghanistan’s export cargo to Turkey was transported on May 2 to the Razi Border

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reports that a staggering 23.7 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in 2024, Khaama Press reported. Despite a decline in violence, Afghanistan continues to grapple with significant humanitarian challenges, as emphasised by UNAMA on Sunday. Of the 23.7 million individuals requiring aid, 5.9 million

Ahmad Vahidi, the Interior Minister of the Islamic Republic, has announced the deportation of 1.3 million “illegal” migrants from Iran last year. Iranian media reported Vahidi as saying that the country is currently not accepting new migrants and all “unauthorised” nationals must vacate Iran. The Iranian government refers to Afghan refugees as “nationals”. Vahidi emphasised

Criticising the mistreatment by the authorities in Pakistan and Iran, the Afghan migrants who have been forcibly deported from the nations have called for international attention to their plight there, according to TOLOnews. The returnees, who have come from Iran, said that they were beaten by the Iranian government forces there. Whereas, those in Pakistan