Danish Karokhel

Amnesty International (AI) says a total of 1,153 executions took place in 2023, marking an increase of more than 30 percent from 2022. It was the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 2015, when 1,634 people were known to have been executed. According to AI, a spike in executions in Iran led to the More

Fresh airstrikes in Rafah have been widely condemned, as the United Nations Security Council is likely to convene an emergency meeting on the worsening situation on Tuesday evening. The Health Ministry in Gaza and media outlets report that at least 45 civilians have been killed in fresh airstrikes carried out by Israeli forces in the More

Thirty-two more Afghan refugees have returned to the country after being freed from jails in Pakistan, police in eastern Nangarhar province said on Tuesday. Torkham Interpol Police Chief Qari Ahmad said 32 Afghan refugees after being released from Pakistani prisons had returned to the country. He said that most of the returnees were children who More

Afghanistan have been placed in Group C of the 2024 Futsal World Cup along with Argentina, Ukraine and Angola. Group A: Uzbekistan, Netherlands, Paraguay, Costa Rica Group B: Brazil, Cuba, Croatia, Thailand Group C: Argentina, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Angola Group D: Spain, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Libya Group E: Portugal, Panama, Tajikistan, Morocco Group F: Iran, Venezuela, More

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has unveiled fixtures for upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, to be jointly hosted by the West Indies and the US. The short-format event is scheduled to commence on the first of June, 2024. Afghanistan are placed in Group C along with New Zealand, New Papua Guinea, Uganda and co-hosts More

At least 21 people have been killed, 19 others wounded, and 840 houses damaged due to flash floods in seven provinces of the country in the last two days, says the State Ministry for Natural Disasters Management. Mullah Jan Saiq, a spokesman for this ministry, said in a video clip that flash floods swept through More

A 13-year-old school student has invented a sun-tracking solar panel device in eastern Nangarhar province. Yahya, 13, a student of seventh grade at Najm-ul-Jihad High School in limits of 6th police district of Jalalabad City, has made the device for solar panels. He said the sun-tracking device he had made was a sample and he could More

At least 10 members of a family have been killed in rain-induced floods in eastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Sunday. Provincial Disaster Management Director Maulvi Mohammad Akram Akbari said flash floods killed the 10 individuals in Morchak village in the provincial capital Faizabad. So far, the body of only one of the victims has More

The Afghan-American Foundation (AAF) has dismissed US President Joe Biden’s remarks on Afghanistan and its people and said that despite challenges imposed by external forces, the people of Afghanistan continually demonstrated their strength and ability to come together. In a statement the AAF said Afghanistan’s diverse people had shown deep resilience and unity in the face of More

Besides human and financial losses in different parts of the country, the floods have also increased risk of collapsing of the historic Jam Minaret in western Ghor province, an official said Thursday. Provincial Information and Culture director Maulvi Abdul Hai Zaeem said the devastating floods in the country caused human and financial losses and harmed More