At least five Turkish soldiers have been killed and eight others wounded in an attack by militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, media reports said on Saturday. VOA quoted the Turkish Defence Ministry as saying: “Clashes broke out after the terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Operation Claw-Lock region on Friday.” Three More
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that no promise was made to grant visas and residence permits to Afghan migrants in Turkiye, according to a media report on Friday. Anadolu reported that Fidan’s comments came in response to a parliamentary question by Deniz Demir, Ankara deputy of Türkiye’s main opposition, the Republican People’s and More
US Special Representative for Women Rights in Afghanistan Rina Ameeri has said that women rights violated in Afghanistan in the past two years. During a briefing to the US House of Representatives, she said that Afghan women rights had been violated in the past two years and women had been systematically pushed to the corner. More
At least 11 members of a family have been found dead in a house in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, media reports said on Thursday. A police official told Dawn that the deceased, including two brothers, their two wives and six children, appeared to have been poisoned and tortured to death two or three days More
Dealing with extreme hardship, approximately 85 percent Afghans live on less than one dollar a day, UNDP said in a report. The UN agency in a report published yesterday that the situation became markedly worsened after August 2021, particularly for women facing severe restrictions. UNDP had to adapt to this new situation and did so More
Afghanistan T20 skipper and spin master Rashid Khan, recuperating from the lower-back surgery, has been ruled out of the series against India, media reports said on Thursday. Indian’s star batter Virat Kohli will also miss the opener of the three-match T20 series against Afghanistan on Thursday for personal reasons, coach Rahul Dravid said. ESPN cricinfo More
An Afghan refugee in United Kingdom (UK) has been found guilty of murdering his two-year-old refugee daughter, who he adopted from Afghanistan, after bashing the toddler’s ‘head against a wall’ in a furious rage, according to a media report on Thursday. Daily mail reported A father-of-four Jan Gholami, 33, and his wife Roqia Ghulami, 32, have More
A fire that broke out three days ago in a forest area in eastern Nuristan province has been controlled, an official said on Wednesday, but residents say the fire is stilling spreading. Nuristan agriculture and livestock director Salman Aiman said the fire in Norgram district was doused in cooperation with the provincial administration and the More
Afghanistan will play their first match against India tomorrow as part of a three-match twenty/20 series. Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) wrote on its Facebook page that the national side will play its first T20 match against India tomorrow. The match will commence at 6:00pm Afghanistan time. ACB said the Afghan players played exercise games to More
At least 142 employees of United Nations have been killed so far in Gaza Strip, says the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The deaths of UN staffers were the highest in the organisation’s history, UNRWA was quoted by Qatar News Agency. The agency said in a statement that 130 of its More
