Zamir, a boy who lost four members of his family on their way to Iran, has asked the acting government to create jobs and thereby alleviate the suffering of Afghans. After the political change in August 2021, the international community has considerably slashed aid to Afghanistan and has frozen more than $9 billion foreign reserves More
Over 16,000 children are involved in hard labour or collecting garbage on roads and streets, an official said on Monday. According to reports some children are involved in bricks making along with the families in bricks factories. Walid, 11, is one of these children, who told Pajhwok Afghan News that he daily go to the More
Seven people have been killed and 10 others injured in the collapse of a three-storey hotel located in Pakistan’s central province of Punjab. The private hotel on the busy Grand Trunk Road in Jhelum city collapsed following a gas cylinder explosion on Sunday, local officials said. At least seven bodies have been retrieved from the More
Nearly two dozen Afghan citizens have been rescued from human traffickers near Brazil border, an official said on Monday. The 23 Afghan migrants, trying to reach Ecuador, paid human smugglers for transporting them across the country and to its northern border, Peru’s prosecutor said on Sunday. But they were cheated out of their money More
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned two to three billion people worldwide have experienced water shortages. Late on Saturday night, the UN chief tweeted that access to clean drinking water was not a privilege. Guterres said, we must all take collective Water Action to share resources equitably and manage them sustainably. The UN has previously More
Azeemullah, the resident of northern Takhar province, has made three unsuccessfully illegal migration attempts in the past and now established a bricks production factory in which he provided work opportunity to other youths as well. His efforts to go to a foreign country were merely due to the financial problems and poverty that he was More
Gunmen have launched an attack on a police station in the Zahedan city of Iran, sparking an armed clash between the two sides, a media report said on Saturday. IRNA quoted Mahdi Shams, the attorney general of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, as saying the ongoing assault was launched in the morning. Shams said More
Following the closure of beauty salons in the country, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous says the future of Afghanistan must include females. Bahous tweeted: “The closure of beauty salons in Afghanistan is yet another blow to women´s rights and a further attempt at removing them from public life. The future of #Afghanistan must include More
Afghan bodybuilders have won three silver and one bronze medals in the ongoing 13th South Asian Bodybuilding Championship in the Maldives, says Afghanistan Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (ABBFF). The South Asian bodybuilding competitions that started on July 4 in Male will last on July 11. ABBFF wrote in its Facebook page that Ali Riza Asahi More
The 5th edition of the ACC men’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup is scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka from July 13 to July 23. The tournament will feature eight Asian teams, with seven of them representing the ‘A’ teams of their respective countries. Afghanistan will open their campaign against Oman on July 13, play their More
