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CIVICUS Monitor puts Pakistan on its watch list over rapid decline in civic freedoms following the repression against the opposition, the censorship of journalists and attacks on peaceful protests, according to a statement on Monday.

Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi says calling Afghan refugees a threat to Pakistan’s security cannot be justified.

Sri Lanka’s T20I skipper Wanindu Hasaranga has been awarded a two-match suspension due to his latest breach of the ICC Code of Conduct.

Fifteen people have been killed and 44 others wounded in a fire at a residential building in China’s eastern city ofNanjing, media reports said on Saturday.

QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): Pistachio forest in Badghis province is national wealth and those cutting down pistachio trees will face legal consequences, the provincial acting . .

KABUL (Pajhwok): Nearly 7,880 vulnerable people in northern Jawzjan and eastern Laghman and Nangarhar provinces have been distributed food items and winter clothes, officials .

Poppy crop has been destroyed on more than 160 acres of land in western Farah province and three individuals have been arrested in connection with narcotics in southern Helmand province.

BAMYAN/NEILI/FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Roads in central Bamyan, Daikundi provinces and 12 district of northeastern Badakhshan province have been reopened for traffic after being closed . .

Sri Lanka have trounced Afghanistan by four runs in the opener of three-match T20I series at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

The World Bank’s (WB) executive board has approved $300 in fresh funds for Afghanistan and the grant would be paid out through the International Development Association (IDA).

QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): Some individuals with disabilities in western Badghis province complain about people’s inappropriate behavior towards them. But officials say awareness programs about the rights

Five international NGOs have warned a warmer-than-average winter and lack of snow are ominous signs of worsening climatic and drought conditions in Afghanistan, which is already suffering its worst drought in 30 years.