Turkey faces runoff election with Erdogan leading

Turkey headed for a runoff vote after President Tayyip Erdogan led over his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s election but fell short of an outright...

Tahawol: Blinken, Qatar FM’s talks on Afghanistan

Saar: Turkey elections discussed

220,000 disaster-related IDPs in Afghanistan in 2022: report

A total of 220,000 internal displacements were recorded in Afghanistan due to disasters in 2022, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said in a new report....

Afghan wheelchair basketball team come 2nd in quota cup for Para-Asian Games

The Afghanistan national wheelchair basketball team were runners up in the China Para Asian Games quota tournament on Saturday with four wins and one loss. The...

Afghan refugees living in India accuse embassy officials of corruption

Representatives of Afghan refugees living in India have accused officials at the Afghanistan embassy in Delhi, India, including the ambassador, of corruption. In a letter seen...

Twenty-two Afghan nationals arrested near Torkham by Pakistani police

Pakistan police claim to have arrested 22 Afghans during raids around the Torkham pass area on Saturday. According to local press reports, several teams of police...

Turkey votes in pivotal elections that could end Erdogan’s 20-year rule

Turks voted on Sunday in one of the most important elections in modern Turkey’s 100-year history, which could either unseat President Tayyip Erdogan and halt his...

Punjab, Lucknow boost IPL play-off hopes, Delhi out

Opener Prabhsimran Singh hit his maiden IPL century to set up a 31-run win for Punjab Kings and push Delhi Capitals out of the play-off race...

Over 2,000 acres of poppy fields destroyed in ongoing campaign

The Ministry of Interior said on Sunday that so far 2,183 acres of poppy fields across nine provinces have been destroyed in the ongoing campaign to...

Minister of mines to call for tenders to extract oil and gas ‘soon’

Sheikh al-Hadith Shahabuddin Delawar, the Minister of Mines and Petroleum, said on Saturday in a meeting with officials from a Chinese company that he will soon...

Pakistan PM orders those involved in violence tracked down and arrested

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday gave authorities 72 hours to identify and arrest all those involved in violent acts after former Prime Minister Imran...

Tahawol: Qatari delegation trip to Kandahar reviewed

Saar: Conflict between Pakistan’s ex-PM and Army discussed

First Afghan air cargo company takes off

Afghan officials inaugurated the country’s first air freight company on Saturday at the Kabul airport. The inauguration ceremony was attended by senior government officials including Nooruddin...

Erdogan accuses opposition of working with Biden

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan held his last election rallies in Istanbul on Saturday, accusing the opposition of working with U.S. President Joe Biden to topple him...

Twitter’s new CEO is an NBCUniversal executive with deep ad industry ties

Elon Musk confirmed that the new CEO for Twitter will be NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, an executive with deep ties to the advertising industry. “I am excited...

Afghanistan reports first polio case of 2023

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health on Saturday reported that the first case of polio in the country in 2023 was registered. The new polio case was reported...

South Africa rejects US accusations of arms shipment to Russia

South African officials on Friday hit back at US accusations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town late last...

Trans-Afghan railway project gets coordination office in Tashkent

The coordination office for the trans-Afghan railway project was inaugurated in the Uzbekistan capital Tashkent on Friday. The inauguration ceremony was attended by Mullah Bakht-ur-Rahman Sharafat,...