Afghanistan on Sunday beat Ireland by 10 runs in the second T20 cricket match played in Sharjah, UAE and leveled the series 1-1. Afghanistan won the toss and decided to bat first. The men in blue did not have a positive start and the team’s total score was 14 on the loss of its four More
An Afghan was among five foreign national students injured in a mob attack at Gujarat University in India last night. Videos of the attack on the foreign students have gone viral on social media. At least five vehicles were damaged according to the videos. The students, who are from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, South Africa and Sri More
Former president Hamid Karzai has once again called on the Taliban to allow girls to go to schools and universities so the country could progress and compete with other countries. Soon after returning to power in 2021, the Taliban banned girls above the sixth grade from going to schools and then extended the ban to More
Pakistan’s flawed policy towards Afghanistan is the root cause of its problems, including its current economic woes, says a noted political expert. Former senator Afrasiab Khattak urged Islamabad to balance its policy if it wanted to arrest its economic slide and banish extremism. Speaking at an event hosted by an Islamabad-based think tank on Saturday, he suggested: “To come out of the More
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for a year till March 18, 2023, according to a media report on Friday. Resolution 2727 decides that UNAMA and the UN Secretary-General’s special representative will continue to carry out their mandate in support of More
Voters across Russia’s 11 time zones headed on Friday to the polls to pick the country’s next president, with incumbent Vladimir Putin being all but certain to secure his fifth term, according to media reports. Putin on Thursday had urged Russians to back him in the face of a “difficult period” for the country, in More
The UN Security Council (UNSC) is expected to vote today (Friday) on a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for another year, until 17 March 2025, according to a statement on Friday. The draft resolution in blue extended UNAMA’s mandate without changing its mandated tasks and priorities, reiterates the Council’s More
The United States has renewed its commitment to continue support individuals who cooperated with them in two decades of conflict in Afghanistan, an official has said. White House Spokesperson John Kirby told reporters: “Even though our war in Afghanistan ended, our commitment to Afghans and our commitment to those who helped us in that war More
Ireland defeated Afghanistan by 38 runs in the first T20I of their three-match series in Sharjah on Friday. Afghanistan won the toss and invited Ireland to bat first, with Ben White and Josh Little starring with the ball. Harry Tector hit an undefeated half-century as the tourists took a 1-0 series lead against hosts Afghanistan. More
Afghan freefighter Wahidullah Nazhand will face his Czech rival Jacob Bhinak in Stuttgart. Nazhand wrote on his Facebook account that the match would be played on March 23 in Germany’s city. According to Nazhand, this will be his 55th competition at the MMA event in the weight category of 74 kilograms. His sister Azita told Pajhwok More
