By bnm Tehran bureau Opium prices are soaring in Afghanistan following the Taliban's drug cultivation ban, threatening regional stability, new data from the UN indicated on March 12. The Taliban swept ...

Prices for opium in Afghanistan have increased tenfold since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban in 2022 following ...

Giving updates on country's economic progress, finance minister says remittance inflow for Feb 2025 has reached an impressive ...

Talks between Afghan and Pakistani jirgas to resolve the 19-day Torkham border dispute collapsed after the Afghan delegation ...

ONA: The Minister of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, Qais bin Mohammed al Yousef, received the Acting Foreign ...

Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi, head of Afghanistan’s Taxpayers Services ... The Taliban have sought to ramp up tax collection after a severe economic contraction that followed their takeover in 2021.

Since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan nearly four years ago, human rights have begun diminishing for over 14 million women. Heightened gender inequality has exacerbated the pre-existing ...

It could exacerbate the challenges confronting the Afghan economy, which has teetered near crisis since the Taliban took over in 2021, leading to a cut in development aid and sanctions affecting ...

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations called on the international community to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a safe ...

The conflict could exacerbate the challenges confronting the crisis-hit Afghan economy at a time when millions of people are at risk of hunger and about half the population needs humanitarian ...