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The Ministry of Interior (MoI) say that in order to prevent terrorist incidents, robberies, and target shootings by unknown armed men, motorbikes are banned in Kabul until further notice. In April, the Afghan security authorities banned motorbikes in PD 15 area of the capital Kabul but later on they expanded…

At odds to President Ghani’s oath-taking statement on March 09, in which he promised to form his new cabinet within two weeks, the Afghan cabinet has yet to be completed.  Some MPs criticize the government for failure to introduce new cabinet members for vote of confidence.   Before an agreement…

On Saturday, May 30, Herat union of money exchangers went on strike to protest against series of kidnap for ransom of the money exchangers in the city.  Exchange markets are closed and the exchangers are calling on the government to take a serious action against the abductors. According to Herat…

The Afghan government and the Taliban have exchanged hundreds of prisoners after a surprise ceasefire announcement during the three days of the Eid al-Fitr by the Taliban. The prisoners’ exchange, stipulated in the US-Taliban agreement, was halted for a short time due to a drastic increase in violence by the…

A number of close relatives of Covid-19 patients along with some local residents in Herat told Kabul Now that a private hospital charges Covid-19 patients USD 100 per 24 hours in return for health service. As the pandemic coronavirus continued to spread in Kabul the Afghan government announced that only…

A picture, showing a woman, holding a newborn baby, circulated on social media hours after a deadly attack on a maternity hospital in western Barchi neighborhood of Kabul. This initial picture, which was taken in the aftermath of the attack, showed a woman lying down in a hospital room, her…

Complaints about mismanagement and lack of medical equipment in Afghan-Japan Hospital remain high though the Afghan government has allocated a substantial amount of money to campaign against Covid-19 outbreak in the country. As the fatal pandemic coronavirus continued to climb in the country, the Afghan government allocated around 89 billion…

On May 09, hundreds of civilians in central Ghor province took to street to protest against what they called unjust distribution of aid packages supplied by a Qatari charity organization. The protest turned violent when the angry mob tried to break into building of governor office. To disperse the mob,…

On May 02, some cellphone images leaked to local media outlets showed corpses of Afghan migrants who were illegally crossing into Iran. The migrants who had survived told reporters that there were over 50 Afghan migrants who were caught, beaten and thrown into Harirud River by Iran’s border guard after…

In 2005 a small group of 26 cadets, who then were under training at the Marshal Fahim Military College in Kabul, resolved to find a philanthropy box for the families of fallen Afghan soldiers. They realized that families of fallen soldiers were the most vulnerable members of Afghan society. The…