Incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan has condemned Pakistan’s recent airstrikes inside Afghanistan’s soil, seeing Islamabad’s foreign policy failure behind the deterioration of relations between the two countries. The leader of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf political party told journalists in prison that terrorist incidents could increase in Pakistan if relations with Afghanistan deteriorated He also claimed the More
A 62-year-man with end-stage renal disease has become the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig, doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced on Thursday. The four-hour surgery, performed on March 16, “marks a major milestone in the quest to provide more readily available organs to patients,” the hospital More
Another group of Afghans has been evacuated to Germany from Islamabad. The German Foreign Ministry said that the Afghans were sent from Islamabad on a special plane yesterday. The ministry said the lives of the group sent to Germany were in danger in Afghanistan. However, the German Foreign Ministry did not say how many men More
US special representative for Afghanistan Thomas West has discussed Afghanistan with Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials. West wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday that he had a discussion on the future of Afghanistan with Indian Foreign Ministry Assistant Secretary G.P. Singh and another official in New Delhi. He added that India was playing More
Afghanistan is all poised to take on India in the second round of the FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers and the 2027 Asian Nations Cup, an official said on Thursday. The crucial match is expected to take place on 11:30pm tonight in Saudi Arabia’s Abhai town. Afghanistan Football Federation spokesman Mustafa Hashimi told Pajhwok Afghan More
The White House and congressional leaders have agreed to grant 12,000 special immigrant visas for Afghan nationals. The SIV program, which was created in 2009 to give Afghans who served as interpreters for the US military a path to escape threats to their lives, has about 7,000 visas remaining of the 38,500 Congress has previously More
At least three civilians were killed and 12 others wounded as a result of a suicide bombing in front of the New Kabul Bank building in the capital of southern Kandahar province on Thursday morning. The suicide attacker detonated his explosives in a line of people waiting for withdrawing money from the bank in the More
Afghanistan has expressed its disappointment over Australia’s decision on postponing another bilateral series. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) stressed cricket must be kept away from political influence, given the game’s significance in the country. Cricket was a source of happiness and joy for the Afghan nation, ACB said, acknowledging the pressure on CA from the More
The national futsal team will participate in the international four-way tournament in Thailand before the start of the Asian Futsal Cup, according to a statement from the Football Federation on Tuesday. The statement said: “Afghanistan’s national futsal team made history for the first time to qualify for the Futsal Asia Cup, to ensure the best More
A number of militants have attacked Gwadar Port’s civilian and military facilities in the Balochistan province of Pakistan, reports said on Wednesday. Some Pakistani media outlets reported citing a statement from the Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) the militants attempted to enter different facilities at Gwadar, but the attack was thwarted by the security forces. More
