Ayaz Gul VOA News October 12, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban government Thursday lowered the death toll from a series of recent earthquakes that struck western districts to about 1,000, revising the previous figure of more than 2,000 fatalities. The Afghan Public Health Ministry posted the latest toll on X, formerly Twitter, saying around 2,400 people
The Guardian (UK): The Intercontinental Hotel, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel, opened in 1969. It was built in a time that feels much further away than the year suggests. Afghanistan was at war for more than 40 years. Rulers came and went, and every one of them was here, at the Intercontinental. Its former luxury has
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 12, 2023 Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the United Nations and international donors to press Pakistan to end abuses and protect Afghan asylum seekers, saying the forcible deportation would put them “at grave risk of being returned to persecution and other abuse.” Earlier in October, Pakistan announced a crackdown on migrants
Khaama: Flydubai is resuming flights between Kabul and the United Arab Emirates, as confirmed by the Afghanistan Consulate General in Dubai. This decision comes after a two-year suspension of these flights and marks a significant development in air travel between the two destinations. Currently, two local airlines, Ariana Airlines and Kam Air, are the primary
VOA News October 11, 2023 A strong earthquake hit western Afghanistan Wednesday, affecting the same area where an earthquake four days ago killed more than 2,000 people. The U.S. Geological Survey said the center of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake Wednesday was about 28 kilometers northwest of the city of Herat. There were no immediate reports
8am: Sources on Wednesday, October 11, revealed that a female doctor at the maternity hospital was forcibly removed from her workplace by a Taliban fighter last night. The aggressor threatened her with a weapon and took her to a patient within the hospital premises. This act was met with strong condemnation from the medical staff,
Akmal Dawi VOA News October 10, 2023 The number of people killed by Saturday’s 6.3-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan has surpassed 2,400 as search and rescue teams extracted more bodies from the ruins of hundreds of destroyed houses, according to local officials. “Martyrs are still under the rubble,” said Matiul Haq Khalis, president of the Afghan
Khaama: The United Nations Coordination Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has stated that in the earthquake on Saturday, 1,294 people were killed and 688 others were injured in the Zenda Jan district of Herat province. OCHA reports that there are currently 485 individuals missing, comprising 191 men and 294 women. According to OCHA’s report, six