Three children have died following a poisoning incident involving eight family members in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Saturday. Maulvi Najibullah Hanif, the director of Information and Culture, said that the poisoning occurred in the Gambir area of the district on Friday. Of the eight affected family members, three More
Five unidentified people have been found dead in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials say. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found hanging from electric poles in the Dalbandin town of Chaghai district on Friday. “All five victims appear to be non-local and are likely to be Afghan nationals,” a senior district police officer believed. The corpses were More
Sweden’s public health agency has recorded what it says is the first case of a more dangerous type of mpox outside the African continent, a media report said on Friday. According to BBC, the person became infected during a stay in an area of Africa where there is currently a major outbreak of mpox Clade More
The first shipment of Afghanistan’s minerals has been exported to China via Iran’s Chabahar port, a media report said on Friday. IRNA reported Hussain Shahdadi, deputy administrative head of Sistan Balochistan’s ports, saying: “Today, the first transit shipment comprised of 12 lorry Afghanistan’s stones exported to China from Chabahar Port, the shipment arrived to the More
The Torkham crossing has reopened for trade and passengers after four days ofclosure, officials announced on Thursday. The key land route, a major commercial hub, between Afghanistan and Pakistan had been closed on August 11 after a clash between security forces in the Ghorki area of Momand Dara district. Nangarhar’s police spokesman Hafiz Abdul Basir More
At least 20 members of the Sikh minority from Afghanistan have been granted Indian citizenship, says a media report. Having applied online more than three months back, they were given Indian nationality under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 in the past one week. Some of them, who had arrived in India in 1997, continued More
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared state of public health emergency due to the outbreak of mpox in some African countries. The BBC reported the disease was known to be spreading through sexual and skin contact, talking and breathing closely. Its symptoms are similar to flue, causing skin issues and can be lethal to More
The United States (US) has contributed 280 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Thursday. This funding will allow WFP to support more than three million hungry people with life-saving food assistance and treat more than 900,000 malnourished children and women. WFP said in a statement the funding More
US State Department Deputy spokesman Vedant Patel has called on the Taliban to substantially improve their human rights record before any normalizations of relations. He told at press briefing that to date no country had publicly announced that it recognized the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan. He added: “We continue to – in close More
On the eve of the Taliban third anniversary of coming to power for the second time, some girls urged the reopening of schools and universities for girls and women in line with Sharia law. After returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban suspended girls’ schools above class sixth and then extended the ban to More
