Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan will not be available for Lahore Qalandars during the playoffs of the ongoing seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). According to the franchise, Rashid will play his last match tonight against Islamabad United. Rashid will leave Pakistan after tonight’s match and will join his national team for the ODI … Read more
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan said in an interview with French publication Le Figaro that Pakistan wants the Taliban recognition to be a collective process. He said Pakistan believes that the more stable the Afghan government is, the less the terrorist groups can operate there. He said it is a global consensus that there should … Read more
Afghanistan national team will be touring Bangladesh for the white-ball series scheduled to start from February 23. The team will start the preparations from February 14 at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. According to Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), ace spinner Rashid Khan and all-rounder Mohammad Nabi, who are currently playing in the ongoing Pakistan Super … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran on Sunday said everyone, except the United States, agreed to save Afghanistan from a humanitarian crisis and if the situation worsened, the US would also face difficulties. Interacting with former diplomats, representatives of think tank in Islamabad, the PM said the situation in Afghanistan was becoming very serious and provision of … Read more
Atlas Battery Limited was incorporated as a public limited company on October 19, 1966. It is engaged in manufacturing and sale of automotive and motorcycle batteries and allied products. The company is a subsidiary of Shirazi Investments (Private) Limited, which holds 58.86 per cent of issued, subscribed and paid-up capital of the company as of … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said peace had been restored in Afghanistan after 40 years despite the fact that the western powers had frozen financial assets of the country, Bol news reported. In an interview with Director of the Advisory Committee of China Institute of Fudan University Dr Eric Li, he said imposing … Read more
Prime Minister Imran Khan reiterated on Tuesday that Pakistan wants a peaceful solution to the long-standing Kashmir dispute. During an interview with the Chinese CGTN, he said that the Kashmir issue was a bone of contention between Pakistan and India. Read more: PM Imran, COAS to spend day with troops in Balochistan The prime minister … Read more
National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf has told the 12th meeting of Pakistan-Afghanistan Parliamentary Friendship Group that over 200 trade related issues had been resolved in less than 6 months and both sides were fully cooperating to settle all trade matters in an amicable manner. National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser presided over the meeting in Islamabad … Read more
Pakistan and China have agreed to hold a meeting to discuss the situation in Afghanistan at the end of March. This was stated by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at Noor Khan Airbase in Rawalpindi on Sunday, after returning from China. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin and National … Read more
PESHAWAR: Mothers in Afghan refugee camps are allegedly feeding their babies opium to avoid disturbance during their work, Bol News has learnt. The children of refugees from war-torn Afghanistan, living in the Khorasan refugee camp in Pakistan, end up getting addicted to the drug as their mothers continue to weave carpets. The women in the … Read more
TEL AVIV – When Israeli lawyer Inbar Nacht saw pictures last year of Afghans desperately trying to escape their homeland, she thought of her relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust and knew she had to act. She and her husband Marius had founded a charity in 2020 that has worked on a range of … Read more
WELLINGTON – An unmarried, pregnant journalist from New Zealand was offered refuge in Afghanistan when she was denied re-entry to her home country to give birth due to strict Covid-19 regulations, however, now, she has been offered a place by the government in her country. Reporter Charlotte Bellis on February 1 said she would return … Read more
MAZAR-I-SHARIF – Contrary to alleged reports of women being confined to home under Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, nearly a dozen women and girls are seen hard at work in a confectionery shop in the northern city of Mazar-I-Sharif. The owner of the shop, Sayed Abas, told Xinhua that 10 women and girls work there regularly, making … Read more
LAHORE: Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said that resolving the Kashmir issue and establishing economic stability in Afghanistan was compulsory for regional peace. Talking to the media representatives after an event at Governor House, he also praised the Pakistani armed forces and termed it the best force in the world capable of defeating the enemy … Read more
WELLINGTON: A pregnant New Zealand journalist denied re-entry to her home country to give birth said she has instead been offered refuge by the Afghan Taliban. “This just feels like such a breach of trust,” she said on Sunday (Jan 30) in an interview with Radio New Zealand. Ms Charlotte Bellis had been working for … Read more
A Taliban delegation led by Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) interim Minister for Foreign Affairs Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi visited Norway, their first official visit to any European state after seizing power in Afghanistan five months ago, to participate in the three-day Oslo Talks on human rights. The Taliban delegation reportedly met Norwegian officials and … Read more
GENEVA – World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is all but guaranteed a second term after a procedural vote on January 25 made him the sole nominee for a leadership election in May. The first African leader of the UN health agency said he was “very grateful for the renewed support”, after the WHO’s … Read more
Pakistan has strongly called for unfreezing Afghanistan’s financial reserves to revive its war-battered economy and to save the lives of millions of suffering Afghans. Speaking at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Munir Akram, said there is no legal justification for depriving Afghan people of their national assets. Read … Read more
LONDON, – Homayoun Sakhi closes his eyes and runs his fingers along the long neck of his wooden instrument encrusted with mother-of-pearl. “I feel like I have my Afghanistan in my hand,” says Sakhi, one of the world’s most renowned performers on the country’s national instrument, the rubab. He is jet-lagged after flying in from … Read more
ZARANJ, Afghanistan – Police in the western Nimroz province have arrested seven persons on the charge of involvement in criminal activities, said a news release of the Informational and Culture Department of the province Tuesday. The arrested persons, according to the news release, were involved in a variety of criminal activities ranging from armed robbery … Read more
QADIS – Survivors of twin earthquakes in Afghanistan were waiting on January 19 for aid to arrive after spending their second night exposed to sub-zero temperatures following tremors that killed dozens of people and wrecked homes. Rescuers continued to comb through debris in search of survivors from the quakes on January 17, which jolted Qadis … Read more
BOGOTA – Peruvian Vladimir Florez was guarding the US consulate in Afghanistan when a suicide bomber blew up a truck outside the gates, killing eight Afghans and sparking a firefight that lasted hours. Like many Latin-American former soldiers, Florez feels bitter at the conditions he endured then and his treatment since. Others say they were … Read more
JALALABAD, Afghanistan – The Taliban promised to bring peace, but fear reigns above all in the eastern city of Jalalabad, hit by Islamic State group attacks and reprisals, and with corpses appearing mysteriously in rivers. In the evening, the inhabitants of the trade hub in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province hurry home before night falls and the … Read more
KABUL – The Taliban’s prime minister called Wednesday on Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise the government that seized power in Afghanistan in August. No country has yet recognised the Taliban government, with nations watching to see how the hardline Islamists — notorious for human rights abuses during their first stint in … Read more
Pakistan fast bowlers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf are ranked top three among the highest wicket-takers since 2020. Alhamdullilah 🤲 https://t.co/B8uwmuUXhC — Haris Rauf (@HarisRauf14) January 16, 2022 Shaheen and Rauf have shown stellar performances with the ball not only on the international stage but also on the domestic stage too. The left-arm pacer … Read more
The General Tyre and Rubber Company of Pakistan Limited was incorporated in Pakistan on March 7, 1963 as a private limited company and was subsequently converted into a public limited company. GTYR is engaged in the manufacturing and trading of tyres and tubes for automobiles and motorcycles. Net sales in value terms for the first … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Finally, the government has met all the conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the review of the $6 billion programme, and the entire nation is already bearing its repercussions in the form high inflation, an economic slowdown and increase in the cost of doing business. For Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin the current … Read more
ISLAMABAD: National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf on Sunday said that India made a publicity stunt by announcing 50,000 tonnes of wheat assistance for Afghanistan but did not send a single grain for the Afghans facing worst humanitarian crisis. “India deliberately announced the wheat assistance intended to be transported through Pakistan’s land routes with the … Read more
