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March 22, 2023 01:07 PM IST At least 12 people were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by a strong earthquake felt across thousands of kilometres, but the region appeared on March 22 to have dodged the mass casualties usually associated with a tremor of such scale. The quake, which struck around 09:30 pm (1700 GMT) Kabul time on March 21 and lasted more than 30 seconds, was felt from central Asia to New Delhi in India -- more than 2,000 km away.
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March 21, 2023 11:33 PM IST There were no deaths or injuries immediately reported, but videos on social media showed panicked residents fleeing their homes.
- March 16, 2023 12:23 PM IST
In a madrassa in the Afghan capital, rows of teenage girls rock back and forth reciting verses of the Koran under the watchful eye of a religious scholar. The number of Islamic schools has grown across Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, with teenage girls increasingly attending classes after they were banned from secondary schools.
- March 08, 2023 06:51 AM IST
The first meeting of the India-Central Asia joint working group on Afghanistan in New Delhi also witnessed a resolve by the participating countries exploring ways to jointly counter threats of terrorism, extremism, radicalisation and drug trafficking in the region.
- February 27, 2023 11:15 PM IST
Afghanistan is gripped by a winter that Afghan officials and aid group officials are describing as the harshest in over a decade, battering millions of people already reeling from a humanitarian crisis.
- February 25, 2023 01:44 PM IST
The Torkham border crossing -- a vital commercial artery and a trade route for Pakistan to Central Asian countries -- was shut by the Afghan Taliban on Sunday after Islamabad accused Kabul of providing safe havens to the Pakistan Taliban militants whose cross-border attacks have led to a spike in violence in this country.
- February 24, 2023 10:21 AM IST
For India’s volatile neighbourhood, the first anniversary of the Ukraine war may mean a new chapter of violence in Afghanistan and further destabilisation of Pakistan
- January 16, 2023 10:36 AM IST
Mursal Nabizada and her guard were shot dead and her brother was injured in Sunday's attack, police said.
- January 11, 2023 07:08 PM IST
The blast hit around 4 p.m. local time (1130 GMT), Kabul's police spokesperson Khalid Zadran told Reuters.
- January 10, 2023 07:19 PM IST
Plus, International Cricket Council CEO Geoff Allardice expects IPL-style women’s league in India to be a ‘huge step forward’ for the women’s game internationally.
- January 05, 2023 08:22 PM IST
The earthquake hit the Hindu Kush Region of Afghanistan around 7:55 pm.
- January 05, 2023 06:49 PM IST
Ahanger, the 49th person to be designated an “individual terrorist” by the Central government, has been accused of working towards providing traction to militancy in Kashmir
- January 04, 2023 07:25 AM IST
Last month, the Taliban banned women from attending universities.
- January 02, 2023 12:23 PM IST
"We will start a national self-sufficiency programme, we will encourage all government administrations to use domestic products, we will also try to encourage people through mosques to support our domestic products" he told Reuters. "We will support any item which can help us for self-sufficiency."
- December 28, 2022 07:48 PM IST
The Taliban’s higher education minister announced the ban on women’s higher education last week, saying it would take immediate effect.
- December 26, 2022 11:02 AM IST
The administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) not to let female staff work until further notice.
- December 25, 2022 07:41 AM IST
A letter from the economy ministry, confirmed by spokesperson Abdulrahman Habib, said the female employees were not allowed to work until further notice because some had not adhered to the administration’s interpretation of Islamic dresscode for women.
- December 23, 2022 11:10 AM IST
Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar is a 15-year-old cricketer from Afghanistan. He is the youngest player to have signed up for the IPL 2023 auction.
- December 22, 2022 04:02 PM IST
Anand Mahindra wrote, "All my life, my main mode of giving back to society has been through supporting women’s education. So, to me, this news is...
- December 21, 2022 05:26 PM IST
Despite initially promising a more moderate rule respecting rights for women and minorities, the Taliban have widely implemented their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, since they seized power in August 2021.
- December 21, 2022 09:14 AM IST
A letter, confirmed by a spokesperson for the higher education ministry, instructed Afghan public and private universities to suspend access to female students immediately, in accordance with a cabinet decision.
- December 21, 2022 06:42 AM IST
Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Sanjay Verma addressed a UN Security Council briefing on Afghanistan on Tuesday and said peace and stability in Afghanistan are critical imperatives that the international community needs to collectively strive for.
- December 06, 2022 06:28 PM IST
Ehsanullah Kitab, head of the Kabul education department, said the exams would take place on Wednesday. He provided no other details, and it was not clear how many teenage girls would be able to take the exam.
- December 06, 2022 11:28 AM IST
"Today at around 7 a.m. a blast took place in ... Balkh on a bus which belonged to Hairatan oil employees," said Mohammad Asif Wazeri, police spokesman for northern province of Balkh, adding that at least four people were wounded.
- December 02, 2022 11:46 AM IST
The combination of political instability, a declining economy and rising security threats within the country poses a big challenge to the Shahbaz Sharif government.
