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ECB Rejects Call For Boycott Of Afghanistan Champions Trophy Game: Report

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ECB Rejects Call For Boycott Of Afghanistan Champions Trophy Game: Report

The England and Wales Cricket Board has reportedly rejected calls to boycott England’s match against Afghanistan in the upcoming Champions Trophy over the treatment of women in a Taliban-ruled country. England are scheduled to face Afghanistan on February 26 in the Champions Trophy but more than 160 politicians have written a letter to…

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Rashid Khan Picks Up 11 Wickets, Carries Afghanistan To Maiden Test Series Win vs Zimbabwe

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Rashid Khan Picks Up 11 Wickets, Carries Afghanistan To Maiden Test Series Win vs Zimbabwe

Star leg spinner Rashid Khan took his seventh wicket of the innings as Afghanistan speedily wrapped up a 72-run victory over Zimbabwe on Monday to win the two-Test series. Zimbabwe were 205-8 overnight with captain Craig Ervine unbeaten on 53 and needing 73 more runs to win the Test at Queens Sports Club…

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Rashid Khan Reflects On Post-Surgery Comeback After Guiding Afghanistan To First-Ever Test Series Win

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Rashid Khan Reflects On Post-Surgery Comeback After Guiding Afghanistan To First-Ever Test Series Win

Rashid Khan marked his triumphant return to Test cricket with a “Player of the Match” performance, guiding Afghanistan to a 72-run victory over Zimbabwe in the second and final Test at Queens Sports Club on Monday. The leg-spinner’s exceptional bowling figures, 4/94 in the first innings and 7/66 in the second played a…

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War Or Peace: What Will Become Of Middle East In 2025?

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War Or Peace: What Will Become Of Middle East In 2025?

Picture this: the current interim government in Syria, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), gives way to an elected government. Under this fledgling democratic setup, a phoenix-like Syria rises from the ashes of its long, bloody civil war. Millions of Syrian refugees and internally displaced people are returning home joyously; investors are trickling in; broken…

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Hashmatullah Shahidi, Brian Bennett Star As Afghanistan Draw Zimbabwe Test

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Hashmatullah Shahidi, Brian Bennett Star As Afghanistan Draw Zimbabwe Test

Afghanistan veteran Hashmatullah Shahidi and Zimbabwe rookie Brian Bennett starred as the first Test was drawn after a rain-shortened final day in Bulawayo on Monday. Shahidi claimed an Afghan record 246 runs at the end of a marathon innings while spinner Bennett took five wickets. Zimbabwe made 586 and 142-4 to lead Afghanistan by…

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Opinion: A Murky Rivalry Is Brewing In India's Neighbourhood

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Opinion: A Murky Rivalry Is Brewing In India's Neighbourhood

The Afghans are understandably furious. After more than two decades of unleashing terror on them from the mujahideen era through the Taliban times, Pakistan decided to bomb Afghan villages on Tuesday, killing some 46 people, including women and children. The villages allegedly sheltered the cadres of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). That’s ironic. The TTP is…

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UNESCO-Listed Musical Instrument ‘Rubab’ Stifled In Afghanistan

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UNESCO-Listed Musical Instrument ‘Rubab’ Stifled In Afghanistan

Herat, Afghanistan: Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi’s cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools even as a Taliban crackdown…

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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

Peshawar: A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said Saturday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes. Sporadic fighting, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

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Test Records For Zimbabwe And Sean Williams As Afghanistan Toil

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Test Records For Zimbabwe And Sean Williams As Afghanistan Toil

Sean Williams in action© X (Twitter) Zimbabwe and their veteran batter Sean Williams created Test records on Friday against Afghanistan, who trailed by 491 runs after the second day of the first Test in Bulawayo. Resuming on 363 for four, the home side were all out for 586 at Queens Sports Club in the southern…

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Pakistan Confirms Airstrikes Targeting Militants’ Hideouts In Afghanistan

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Pakistan Confirms Airstrikes Targeting Militants’ Hideouts In Afghanistan

Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday confirmed that it carried out strikes targeting militants’ hideouts in Afghanistan, amid strong protest from the Afghan leadership, which condemned it as a “brutal act” and said such arbitrary actions are not a solution to any problem. According to the Afghan officials, at least 46 people, including women and children, were…

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