ISTANBUL (AA) – The Taliban-led interim Afghan administration will recruit some 1,500 women in the education sector, according to a media report. The interim Education Ministry has announced around 8,165 posts in teaching and administrative positions, Kabul-based Tolo News reported. Eligible candidates from 24 provinces across Afghanistan will...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has slammed the US for double standards over sanctions on its missile program, calling Washington’s move “biased and politically-motivated.” “Pakistan considers this action as biased and politically-motivated. Similar listings of commercial entities in the past were based on mere suspicion; inv...
A Rohingya rights organization has urged the Indian government to release refugees who have been on hunger strike since Monday in a detention camp in the northeastern state of Assam. India-based Rohingya Human Rights Initiative Director Sabbre Kyaw Min said many of the detained have U.N. refugee cards. He said nearly 1,000 Rohingya refugees fr...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia on Thursday stripped its military officers of distinguished service medals over war crimes in Afghanistan, local media reported. Announcing the decision in parliament, Defense Minister Richard Marles said he stripped a number of current and former defense officers of medals over alleged war crimes that happened un...
Islim Cheshma, Turkmenistan – AFP Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighbouring Turkmenistan to celebrate its completion on that side of the border. Progress on the TAPI pipeline — running through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan an...
In a regional hospital in Afghanistan, heartbreaking scenes of severe malnutrition paint a grim picture. A BBC report mentions Amina, who has lost six children and struggles to save her last in a hospital in Jalalabad in eastern Nangarhar province. Seven-month-old Bibi Hajira, as small as a newborn, is a poignant symbol of a broader [&hellip...
Dozens of Rohingya refugees, held by India in its largest transit camp in the northeastern state of Assam, have begun a hunger strike. Indian news website Scroll.in reports that women and children are among the more than 100 refugees who have been on hunger strike. The Matia Transit camp is located in the state’s Goalpara […]
In a groundbreaking collaboration, scientists from China’s Renmin Hospital and Yale University have developed a promising treatment for glioblastoma, the deadliest brain cancer. Their research, published in the journal Small Science, highlights nanoparticles capable of identifying and attacking tumor cells in mice. The innovation uses somethin...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The Indian army killed two freedom fighters who attempted to enter Indian-occupied Kashmir from the Pakistan-administered side. “An anti-infiltration operation was launched by Indian army on the intervening night of 08-09 Sept in Lam area. Two terrorists have been neutralized and two AK-47 rifles and a pistol...
Islamabad, Pakistan – AFP Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan gathered in Islamabad on Sunday despite authorities’ attempts to block the protesters’ main routes into the capital, AFP journalists noted. The demonstration, led by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, is the ...
