Pakistan crushed Afghanistan’s dream of a clean sweep, defeating Rashid XI by 66 runs in the last T20I. Chasing a target of 183 runs, the Afghanistan team was bowled out for 116 runs in this match played at the Sharjah Cricket Ground. In the third T20 match, Afghanistan’s batsmen did not have a single run…
Shahid Afridi. File photo Former captain of Pakistan cricket team Shahid Afridi advised to include senior players in the team along with youngsters after defeat by Afghanistan. In a statement issued on the social networking site Twitter, Shahid Afridi said that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has taken a good step by giving opportunities to…
Mickey Arthur. File photo After the Pakistan Cricket Team’s defeat by Afghanistan in the T20 series, the statement of Mickey Arthur, the candidate for the head coach of the national cricket team, came out. In a statement released on social networking site Twitter, Mickey Arthur advised young players to groom with experienced cricketers. Mickey Arthur…
4 Pakistani players made their debut in the first match of the 3 T20 series against Afghanistan. Saim Ayub, Tayyab Tahir, Ehsanullah and Zaman Khan were included in the match played in Sharjah. Saeem Ayub, Tayyab Tahir, Ehsanullah and Zaman Khan were given opportunities in the Afghanistan series thanks to their excellent performances in domestic…
Photo courtesy of PCB The head coach of Pakistan Cricket Team Abdul Rahman has said that there will be a lack of big players for the series against Afghanistan. While giving a press conference in Lahore, the head coach of Pakistan men’s team said that the Afghanistan team is good, it is always a close…
The World Food Programme (WFP) appealed for urgent funding for its operations in the country, where families are battling crisis after crisis, including growing hunger, since the Taliban takeover of 2021. Catastrophic hunger could become widespread across Afghanistan, and unless humanitarian support is sustained, hundreds of thousands more people will need assistance to survive, the…
Photo file Permanent captain Babar Azam, wicketkeeper-batsman Muhammad Rizwan and Haris Rauf are likely to be rested in the T20 series against Afghanistan, while all-rounder Imad Wasim is likely to return to the team. Pakistan squad for T20 series scheduled in United Arab Emirates (UAE) is expected to be announced on Monday. It should be…
Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, UN Special Representative and head of the UN’s Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, strongly condemned recent Taliban decrees that have further eroded the rights of Afghan women. However, she also urged the international community to preserve “whatever political space exists” for frank discussions with Afghanistan’s leaders, warning of rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and…
Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Deputy Special Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, updated journalists in New York on developments in a country where 28 million people now depend on aid to survive. Immense humanitarian needs “Afghanistan remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in 2023, notwithstanding, of course, the recent devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria,” he…
Representing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), they stressed that the world’s largest humanitarian operation – supporting some 28 million people in Afghanistan – simply cannot function without women staff. The officials reported on their mission to the country last week, in the wake of the edict prohibiting Afghan women from working with local and international…
