KABUL (Pajhwok): The government of Japan has provided $9.5 million aid to strength agriculture, irrigation and food security in Afghanistan, according to a statement .
Two former local staff at the Japanese Embassy in Kabul and their families who are currently seeking refugee status in Japan have recounted how Foreign Ministry officials sought to pressure them and other former staff to return to their homeland, warning them of the "hell" they faced if they stayed.
A female Afghan television news anchor fled her war-torn country last month to neighboring Pakistan, after having defied the Taliban's order for women to cover their faces in public, and is now eager to resume her career.
Around 40 percent of the 169 people who fled to Japan from Afghanistan following the Taliban s return to power in August last year have left their new home due to what they say was a lack of support from the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
Japan has granted refugee status to 133 people who have fled Afghanistan in the year since the Taliban returned to power last August, Justice Minister Yasuhiro Hanashi says