At least seven bodies were pulled out from the rubble of a collapsed six-storey building in India’s Gujrat state, a media report said on Sunday. Hindustan Times reported another 15 people sustained injuries as the building collapsed in Sachin Pali village of Surat city following several days of incessant rains. Police chief Rajesh Parmer said More
Kyrgyzstan have trounced Afghanistan by four goals in their first match at the Under-20 Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) Championship. The one-sided match was played in Jalal-Abad city of southern Kyrgyzstan on Friday, the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) wrote on its Facebook page. Afghanistan will take on Tajikistan in their final group-stage encounter on July More
Reformist runner Masoud Pezeshkian has won the presidential run-off, an official of the Iranian election panels said on Saturday. With all the 30.530 million ballots counted, Pezeshkian secured at least 53.6 percent — 16.384 million — of the votes to stake a claim to the presidency. Saeed Jalili, his conservative challenger, won 44.3% of the More
The construction of historic Silk Road between Afghanistan and China has reached to the zero point between the two countries, an official said on Friday. Eng. Zabihullah Amiri, head of the provincial Information and Cultural Affairs, visited the Pamir and the Ghajeer valleys. He told Pajhwok Afghan News the construction work has reached to the More
Belarus becomes the tenth full-fledged member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a media report said on Thursday. Ankasam reported the signing ceremony was held at the Independence Palace in Astana, where meetings of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO member states are held. China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan More
Five people, including a former lawmaker, have been killed in a bomb attack in the Bajaur tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Ex-senator Hidayat Ullah’s vehicle was attacked via a remote-controlled bomb in Damadola village late on Wednesday a police official said. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Bakht Munir confirmed Hidayat was killed in the More
A delegation, headed Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) president, has attended the 22nd annual meeting of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) Djibouti. IFSB is an international institution that adopts and disseminates the standards to improve the soundness and stability of the Islamic financial services industry. Da Afghanistan Bank, central banks of Islamic countries, Islamic banks, More
More than a dozen Afghans entered their homeland from Pakistan after being released from prisons in the neighboring country, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Wednesday. MoRR wrote on X platform 13 Afghan refugees after their release from Pakistani prisons returned to Afghanistan two days ago. They had been imprisoned for lacking More
At least 116 people have been killed and several others injured as a result of a stampede at a religious gathering in India, a media report said on Wednesday. The stampede occurred in Uttar Pradesh, the northern state of India, leaving 116 dead, most of them women and children, AP quoted Police Director-General of Prashant More
Australia has appointed Amanda McGregor as Special Representative for Afghanistan (SRA), the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. The Aussie MoFA said: “Today I announce the appointment of Ms Amanda McGregor as Australia’s next Special Representative on Afghanistan (SRA), based in Doha, Qatar.” It said Australia has committed $71 million to assist the More
