In response to Wednesday&s deadly earthquake that hit the south-eastern provinces of Paktika and Khost in Afghanistan, the Bayat Foundation launched an urgent international appeal for donations for the families of victims and survivors.

In addition to the appeal, the foundation also sent an ambulance, doctors and a trailer load of medical...

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More than 250,000 Afghans seeking asylum have arrived in Pakistan since January 2021, according to the UN refugee agency.

Qaiser Khan Afridi, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Pakistan, has said that Pakistan is facing new inflows of asylum seekers from Afghanistan after the Islamic Emirate&s takeover of Kabul.

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The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Haibatullah Akhundzada on Wednesday issued his condolences to families of victims who died in the deadly earthquake in Khost and Paktika province earlier in the day.

According to a statement issued by Akhundzada, the State Ministry for Disaster Management and all relevant officials,...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Wednesday welcomed the UN&s decision to temporarily exempt sanctions on senior IEA officials but called for the sanctions to be lifted permanently.

In a statement issued by the ministry of foreign affairs, the IEA stated that it considers the lifting of sanctions as its right in line with the...

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Wednesday&s earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed at least 920 people and injured 600 more in remote mountain villages in Afghanistan&s eastern Paktika and Khost provinces.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Sharafuddin Muslim, the deputy state minister for disaster management, confirmed the revised death toll and said Barmal...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&s acting Prime Minister Hasan Akhund chaired an emergency meeting on Wednesday morning following the deadly 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit eastern Khost in the early hours of the morning.

By mid-morning Wednesday officials had confirmed almost 300 people had been killed and a further 600 injured in...

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