Sat 25 June 2022: A member of the EU parliament criticized the West for providing Ukraine with significant financial help while failing to aid the war-torn Afghanistan. Mick Wallace criticized the West for its unwavering support of Ukraine while turning a blind eye to Afghanistan’s urgent need for food help in his remarks during a […]
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Sat 25 June 2022: The two factions of the powerful Muslim religious organisation Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH), which are both led by Deobandi clerics, are attempting to reconcile fourteen years after the JUH split. In 2008, the division occurred because members of its working committee raised questions about the way the leader at the time, Maulana […]
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Sat 25 June 2022: Rudimentary construction of homes located in rocky, unpaved mountains and hillsides said to be key factors in severity of destruction. Gayan, Paktika – In the early morning hours of Wednesday June 22, the mud homes in this remote part of southeastern Afghanistan began to tremble and collapse under the force of a […]
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Fri 24 June 2022: US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives, condemning violations of human rights and religious freedom in India and calling for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate India as a “country of particular concern”, it emerged on Thursday. The resolution, co-sponsored by lawmakers Rashida Talib […]
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Fri 24 June 2022: Seemingly, Islam came to India much before than it is believed to have moved in with traders who sailed to coastal belts. The first mosque is presumed to have been built in India well before the Prophet migrated to Madina, the new evidence suggests. A Masjid in Gujarat is much older […]
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Thu 23 June 2022: A junta spokesperson announced on Thursday that former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been transferred from house arrest to solitary confinement in a prison compound in the city’s military-built capital, Naypyidaw. “In accordance with criminal laws… (Aung San Suu Kyi) has been kept in solitary confinement in prison” since […]
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Thu 23 June 2022: Poor communications and a lack of functional roads are making it difficult for Afghan authorities to access a rural location that was affected by an earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, according to officials. “We can’t reach the area, the networks are too weak, we trying to get updates,” Mohammad […]
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Wed 22 June 2022: Over 1,000 people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured in southeastern Afghanistan, the Culture and Information Department has told Al Jazeera. Neighbouring Pakistan’s Meteorological Department said the quake’s epicentre was in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) southwest of the city of Khost. Buildings were also damaged […]
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Wed 22 June 2022: A deadly earthquake has killed over 920 people and injured 610 in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Maulvi Sharafuddin Muslim, deputy minister of state for disaster management, said so far 920 people have been killed and over 610 wounded in the earthquake, state-run Bakhtar News Agency quoted him as saying […]
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Wed 22 June 2022: A strong earthquake that struck rural areas of southeast Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan has left at least 280 people dead and more than 200 others injured, Aaccording to the country’s disaster management authority. According to Salahuddin Ayubi, an official with the interior ministry, the majority of the fatalities were reported in […]
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