An Iran-based human rights organisation claims Iranian border guards have shot dead a large number of Afghan migrants near the Kulgon border area of Saravan city. Haalvsh, citing two eyewitnesses, reported that at least 260 Afghan migrants were killed while attempting to cross into Iran. However, this event has not yet been confirmed by other More
At least four policemen, including an officer, were wounded when a roadside blast ripped their vehicle in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pathunkhwa province on Wednesday, a media report said. The blast hit the police van en route to Kankwe area from Ameble. Four policemen, including an officer, were injured in the blast. The injured were evacuated More
The British government says it is letting “eligible” Afghan special forces members resettle in the UK, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Around 2,000 Afghans, who served with the British specialist units, had been barred from relocating to the UK by the previous administration. But a subsequent review found some applications had been wrongly rejected, Defence More
Nine people, including four policemen, have been killed in an attack on a police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district. Five suspected burqa-clad militants, wearing suicide vests, were killed on Monday when they stormed the Police Lines, the district police officer said. The incident, in which four policemen were also killed, came shortly after the More
UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi says more than 123 million people around the world are now displaced due to war, repression, poverty and climate change. Addressing more than 100 diplomats and ministers in Geneva at UNHCR’s annual meeting, Filippo Grandi said strict measures by some countries to control their borders were no solution to More
Another three Afghans have returned to the country after their release from jails in Iraq, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Tuesday. MoRR reported the three individuals were freed from police custody following efforts by the Afghan Embassy there. It said these Afghans spent up to six months in prisons of Iraq More
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has declared the Pashtun Qaumi Jirga in Khyber ‘a success’, calling the assembly an effective step to solve problems in the region. Karzai’s office wrote he was happy with the “successful conduct” of the Pashtun National Assembly in Khyber and called it a good and effective step to resolve problems. More
The entire region is in a dangerous situation, Iran says, asking the countries concerned to do all they can to stop Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon. Iranian Foreign Minister Sayyed Abbas Araghchi said this at a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani in Baghdad. A statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry said: More
Police have thwarted a third assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump at a rally in California, a media report said on Monday. A Nevada man with a loaded handgun, ammunition and several fake passports in his vehicle was arrested at a security checkpoint outside the venue of Trump’s rally on Saturday night in More
Afghanistan-A are all set to take on Oman-A in their second match of the tri-nation T20 series today (Monday). The match would commence at 1:30pm local time, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) wrote on its Facebook page. The national squad trounced Hong Kong by seven wickets in their first game of the series on Sunday. More
