South African-born former England batsman Jonathan Trott has been named as the new head coach of the Afghanistan senior men&s team, the country&s cricket board (ACB) announced on Friday.

Trott will step up into the role of head coach during Afghanistan&s tour to Ireland in August, ACB said in a statement.

His appointment...

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Residents in Afghanistan&s western province of Herat province complain of rising number of old and damaged banknotes, saying such banknotes are not accepted in their daily business activities.

Herat Money Exchangers& Union recently held a three-day strike for the same problem of refusal of old banknotes.

&The problem prevails...

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Twelve people have died and more than 6,000 people have been infected with cholera outbreak in Jowzjan province, health officials said Friday.

It is said that cholera has transmitted from the southern provinces to the northern provinces of the country.

At the same time, the number of people infected with cholera has increased in Balkh and Zabul...

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Customs posts were being sold for whopping prices during President Ashraf Ghani&s rule, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, a former finance minister, said this week.

Speaking in an interview with Ariana News, Zakhilwal, who served as finance minister during Karzai&s rule, said that the customs posts were being sold from one lakh up to millions of...

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Pakistan&s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari participated in a ceremony in Rawalpindi on Friday to dispatch a consignment of emergency relief assistance to Kandahar province, to support the victims in eastern Afghanistan in the aftermath of the devastating flash floods caused by torrential rains.

Highlighting the fraternal bonds between...

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Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan, said on Thursday that the five Central Asian nations should keep the developments in Afghanistan under &permanent focus&.

During the meeting of the heads of Central Asian states in Kyrgyzstan, Rahmon added that since taking over the country, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) leaders have...

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