A senior member of Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-K), also known as Daesh and the planner of last year’s attack on a Kabul Bank branch in northern Kunduz province, has been killed by unidentified gunmen in Peshawar, Al-Mirsad reported on Sunday.

New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner says his team is ready to challenge hosts and defending champions India in the T20 World Cup final despite the pressure of playing in front of a massive home crowd.

At least 33 people have been injured in an explosion at a nightclub in the coastal city of Trujillo in northern Peru, a media report said on Sunday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said the country’s interim leadership council has approved a decision to halt attacks on neighbouring countries unless Iran itself comes under attack from their territory.

Minister of Public Health, Mawlawi Noor Jalal Jalali, has emphasised the need to expand cardiac treatment services across the country to better address citizens’ health challenges.

Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, says more than 1,300 civilians, including women and children, have been killed and thousands of others wounded as a result of US-Israeli strikes on the country.

The Afghanistan Standards and Quality Authority (ASQA) has returned a consignment of low-quality batteries weighing over 25 tonnes via the Sheikh Abu Nasr Farahi port in western Farah province.

The Ministry of Vice and Virtue and Complaints (MoVVC) has instructed traders and shopkeepers to refrain from hoarding and to sell goods in accordance with the approved price list, warning that violators will face legal action.

Former US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad says he does not believe the Pakistani public supports the establishment’s policies that have led to Afghan civilian casualties, arguing the divide between the people and the ruling authorities is widening.

The United Kingdom will suspend new study visas for nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan and will halt work visas for Afghans, as part of a crackdown on what it says is a sharp rise in asylum claims linked to student visa holders.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) says at least 110 civilians have been martyred, 123 others wounded and 8,400 families displaced in Pakistani military attacks on Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) says 150 Pakistani soldiers have been killed, over 200 others wounded and around 40 military posts captured in retaliatory attacks by Afghan forces.