How feasible the proposed China-MyanmarBangladesh Economic Corridor (CMBC) will be is a question being raised by certain sections in Dhaka? China has already involved itself in infrastructure projects under the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan in the region, where progress has been mixed.
Islamabad/Kabul: Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated after Pakistan launched military strikes along the shared border, claiming that 29 militants were killed during the operation. Afghan Taliban authorities, however, alleged that the attacks killed at least 35 civilians and injured more than 100 others. According to Pakistan’s military, the operation targeted militant hideouts near.
The nutrition crisis in Afghanistan is worsening, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned, highlighting growing humanitarian concerns in the country, local media reported on Tuesday.
The toss for the opening ODI between India and Afghanistan has been delayed due to persistent rain at the HPCA Stadium, the BCCI confirmed in an update on X.
The United Nations has warned that Afghanistan risks creating a "lost generation" as nearly 3.8 million girls continue to remain out of school due to restrictions imposed by the Taliban, local media reported on Tuesday.
Star India batter Virat Kohli is ruled out of the ODI series against Afghanistan at home due to a hamstring injury, as per the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) sources.
Kabul: An unexploded device from previous wars almost killed a teenager who was seriously injured on Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, the provincial police office said in a statement on Wednesday. The gruesome incident occurred in Gilan district when the ill-fated boy found a toy-like object and began playing with it, but the device.
'The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has strongly condemned a new Taliban decree in Afghanistan that legitimises child marriage and considers a girl's silence as consent to marriage, describing it as a "grave and systematic violation of international human rights law".
