Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed veteran diplomat Mohammad Sadiq as his special assistant.

Nearly 70  different mines have been discovered and identified in central Bamyan province during the current solar year, an official announced on Wednesday.

The fourth edition of Afghanistan’s Champions Football League (ACL), featuring 12 teams, has concluded in western Herat province, with Abu Muslim Farah team emerging champions.

The United States (US) has offered releasing a Guantanamo Bay prisoner in return for three Americans detained in Afghanistan, reports CNN.

As the Afghan embassy expressed concerns over the arbitrary detention of Afghan nationals, more than 180 Afghan nationals have been deported from Islamabad in a week in a crackdown on undocumented foreigners, officials say.

A fast-spreading wildfire in the Los Angeles city of California state has forced 30,000 people to abandon homes, says a media report.

The 16th edition of the Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan Provincial Grad- II Tournament, featuring 40 teams, is set to commence on January 11, the cricket board announced on Wednesday.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has hired former Pakistan middle-order batsman Younis Khan as the national team’s new assistant coach for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy.

The toll from Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in China’s Tibet region has mounted to 126 dead and 188 others wounded, media reports say.

One religious scholar has been killed and another injured by unidentified assailants in northern Baghlan province, police said on Wednesday.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says 5.8 million people in Afghanistan will require emergency shelter and non-food items in 2025.

Nearly 50 Palestinians, including five children, have been killed as a result of Israeli air raids on a safe-zone camp in Gaza, media reports say.