Afghanistan remittance payouts limited to local currency -so

Advertise with us

Advertise with us

International News

afghanistan

Afghanistan remittance payouts limited to local currency -sources

REUTERS Afghanistan's central bank has ordered banks to pay out remittances in local currency only, the latest move to preserve scarce U.S. dollars, say sources familiar with the matter. Hard currency remittances have formed an important so..
Twenty years after 9/11, one of the last U.S. Marines killed in Afghanistan comes home

REUTERS U.S. Marine Sergeant Johanny Rosario returned to her hometown in Massachusetts in a casket on Saturday, one of the last American service members killed in Afghanistan during a war set in motion exactly two decades ago by the Sept. 11, 2001..
Unaccompanied children evacuated from Afghanistan in Qatar limbo

AFP The daily life of unaccompanied Afghan refugee children in Qatar is punctuated by recurring questions, "where are we going?" and "can I have some chips". About 200 uprooted young Afghans arrived in Doha aboard flights fr..
US envoy praises Qatar for Afghanistan flights

More than 250 foreign nationals have left Afghanistan in the past three days, says Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington’s special envoy and the architect of an often criticized deal with the Taliban. The deal signed last year provided for the safe w..
First commercial flight from Afghanistan since US exit lands in Qatar

REUTERS The first international commercial flight since the end of last month's chaotic Western airlift from Afghanistan left Kabul airport on Thursday with more than 100 passengers on board, officials said. As well as offering hope to peop..
Qatar, Pakistan call for unconditional humanitarian aid to Afghanistan

REUTERS Pakistan and Qatar on Thursday called on the international community not to make humanitarian aid to Afghanistan conditional on political developments under the new Taliban government. “To save lives and the people of Afghanistan,..
Taliban to allow 200 Americans, other civilians to leave Afghanistan -U.S. official

REUTERS...
Qatar attends ministerial talks on Afghanistan

Qatar took part in the ministerial talks on Afghanistan, held virtually on yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani represented the State of Qatar at the meeting. The meeting was..
Pakistan suggests inviting Taliban-run Afghanistan to regional forum

REUTERS Pakistan on Wednesday suggested inviting Taliban-run Afghanistan to a regional forum of six countries to help avert a humanitarian and economic crisis in the country. The Taliban on Tuesday announced a new government and named Mullah Ha..

Desert Falls Live a Little — VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Follow US

categories