Afghan women footballers find hope on the pitch
Manoozh Noori said she ‘wanted to die’ when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. That meant she could no longer do what she loved most: playing football.
Manoozh Noori said she ‘wanted to die’ when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. That meant she could no longer do what she loved most: playing football.
A strong earthquake killed at least 20 people in northern Afghanistan, authorities said Monday, just months after another deadly tremor that left the country reeling.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Sunday changed the schedule for the remaining three matches of the Youth ODI series between Bangladesh Under-19s and their counterparts Afghanistan in Rajshahi...
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The Taliban government asked her to leave. But for more than four years, Manizha Bakhtari has defied the leadership in Kabul and remains accredited by Vienna as Afghanistan’s ambassador to Austria.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to extend a temporary ceasefire and will hold another round of peace talks in Istanbul next week, aiming to defuse tensions after a deadly flare-up this month.
Pakistan and Afghanistan will likely hold another round of peace talks in Istanbul, a Pakistani security source said on Thursday, after Islamabad’s announcement that previous negotiations had failed...
Pakistan said Wednesday that peace talks with Afghanistan had failed, in a blow to hopes for a lasting truce after the South Asian neighbours’ deadliest border clashes in years.
Negotiations between Afghanistan and Pakistan to secure a lasting truce after their bloodiest clashes in years were deadlocked Tuesday, with a Pakistani security source saying a ‘last-ditch effort’ was underway...
Iqbal Hossain took a five-for before Kalam Siddiki’s 101 trumped Uzairullah Niazai’s 140 as the Bangladesh Under-19 beat their Afghanistan counterparts by five runs in DLS method in the first of five-Youth ODI series at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium in Bogura on Tuesday.Â
Afghanistan and Pakistan held a third day of negotiations in Istanbul on Monday, seeking a lasting truce after their bloodiest clashes in years.
Bangladesh interim government has taken an initiative to establish Citizen Service Centres at every deputy commissioner’s office across the country to make land-related services more accessible to the public, said senior secretary of the land ministry ASM Saleh Ahmed.
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As fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalated into rare, bloody combat this month, Islamabad pointed fingers at another adversary, accusing India of fuelling the conflict.
Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to an ‘immediate ceasefire’ at talks in Doha, Qatar said Sunday, after at least 10 Afghans were killed in Pakistani air strikes that broke an earlier truce...
Afghanistan have pulled out of a tri-nation series with Pakistan and Sri Lanka next month after three local cricketers were killed in an attack, the country’s cricket board said on Friday.
At least three Afghan cricketers were among eight people killed in a Pakistani airstrike in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province near the border, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said Friday.
Bangladesh captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz admitted that they were not learning from their mistakes after they were clean swept by Afghanistan following their crushing 200-run defeat in the third and final ODI of the series at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
Dozens of troops and civilians were killed in a fresh round of border skirmishes between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, hours before Islamabad said the two sides had agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire.
Bangladesh succumbed to a new low as they were clean swept by Afghanistan when they lost the third and final ODI of the series by massive 200 runs at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
The education ministry issued a circular on Tuesday, making the director general of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, Professor Muhammad Azad Khan, Officer on Special Duty.
Bangladesh will be looking to avoid their second clean sweep in three series when they meet Afghanistan in the third and final ODI at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi today.
Bangladesh’s spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed urged the batters to ‘play the ball, not the bowler’ after they were thrashed by Afghanistan in the second ODI at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Sunday they killed dozens of each other’s troops during a night of heavy border clashes between the two countries.
The government on Sunday appointed Md Ehsanul Haque as the new senior secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration.
Afghanistan clinched the ODI series with a crushing 81-run win over Bangladesh in the second of the three-match series and take an unassailable 2-0 lead at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
The Taliban government on Friday accused Pakistan of ‘violating Kabul’s sovereign territory’, a day after two explosions were heard in the capital.
Bangladesh will be looking to level the series when they take on Afghanistan in the second of the three-match ODI series at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi today.