Afghanistan exported nearly 160,000 tonnes of dried fruit worth over $474 million in the past one year, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) said on Saturday.

Pakistan has put in place arrangements for repatriating Afghan nationals to their homeland, ignoring calls from human rights groups to postpone deportations.

Some 2,463 inmate have been released from prisons across Afghanistan and the sentences of another 3,152 commuted on the occasion of Eidul Fitr, the Supreme Court (SC) announced on Saturday.

The U-17 national football team has left for Jeddah, the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) said on Saturday.

More than 1,000 people have been killed as a result of a massive earthquake that rattled Myanmar and Thailand, a media report said on Saturday.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) says it desires formal relations with the United States of America.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior has asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to furnish the record of Afghan students in the province.

In separate agreements with the United States, Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a naval ceasefire in the Black Sea, media reports said on Wednesday.

A child has been killed by a lightning strike in the Pasaband district of western Ghor province, security official said on Wednesday.

At least 18 people have been killed as wildfires rage in the southeastern region of South Korea, a media report said on Wednesday

At least four robbers, posing as mujahideen (members of security forces), have been killed in a clash with police in the Syedkhel district of central Parwan province.

Bangladesh’s former skipper Tamim Iqbal was rushed to hospital on Monday after suffering a heart attack, a media report said.