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A miffed Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Wednesday asked its Australian counterparts to “not succumb” to pressures from their government, which the south Asian country believes led to the postponement of a bilateral T20 series. Cricket Australia (CA) on Tuesday postponed a three-match T20 International home series against Afghanistan’s men’s team in August this year,…
Fighting has stopped on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border after Pakistani air strikes sparked skirmishes, a Taliban government spokesman said on March 19. “The situation is calm, the fighting has stopped,” Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP. Pakistan carried out strikes in the border areas in Khost and Paktika provinces in Afghanistan early on March 18….
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Australia postponed T20I series vs Afghanistan© X (Twitter) Cricket Australia on Tuesday postponed a three-match T20 International home series against Afghanistan’s men’s team in August this year, citing the “worsening” conditions for women and girls in that country. The Taliban, following its return to power in Afghanistan, has imposed restrictions on girls attending high schools,…
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Ireland claimed victory in the first T20I of their three-match series against Afghanistan in Sharjah on Friday, winning by 38 runs. Ben White and Josh Little starred with the ball for the tourists, while Harry Tector hit an undefeated half-century as Ireland took a 1-0 series lead against hosts Afghanistan. “Really happy. It was a…
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Mohammad Nabi’s five-wicket haul helped Afghanistan clinch a 117-run win over Ireland in the 3rd ODI at Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah on Tuesday. Hashmatullah Shahidi’s Afghanistan also sealed a series win by 2-0, after securing victory in the first and final 50-over match. The second ODI match of the series was abondoned after rain…
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Afghan miners dig inside a tunnel of a gold mine in the mountains of Yaftal Sufla district in Badakhshan province. | Photo Credit: AFP Tearing off a piece of mouldy flatbread, Homayon gulped tea in a brief reprieve from the din of the machines he and a dozen other men were using to dig for…
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Taliban Afghan Foreign Affairs in-charge Amir Khan Muttaqi. File | Photo Credit: AP A senior Indian diplomat has met with ‘Afghan authorities’ in Kabul, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed on Friday. The development came months after the embassy of Afghanistan here that was earlier run by officials with affiliation to the pre-Taliban government…
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File photo of Noor Ali Zadran© X (formerly Twitter) Veteran Afghanistan batter Noor Ali Zadran has announced his retirement from international cricket, bringing down curtains on an international career spanning more than a decade. The 35-year-old, who starred with a 28-ball 45 in Afghanistan’s first-ever ODI against Scotland in 2009, played his final game last…
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India’s envoy to the U.N. has said that the overall objective of the global community in Afghanistan aligns with New Delhi’s priorities in the war-torn nation, including the need to combat terrorism. India’s Permanent Representative to the U.N., Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, told the U.N. Security Council meeting on Afghanistan on March 6 that New Delhi…
The UN’s International Organisation for Migration said the biggest increase in deaths was on the Mediterranean Sea. File | Photo Credit: AP A total of 8,565 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, the U.N. migration agency said March 6, a record high since it began tallying deaths a decade ago. The International…
