Also, 86 people died of COVID-19 in the previous 24-hours period, bringing the nationwide deaths to 5,724.
Health ministry’s data showed that coronavirus that 758 patients got better in the 24-hours period.
All educational centers, including schools and universities, wedding and conference halls as well as swimming pools will remain shut until July 23.
Health officials asking residents to follow health measures....
Afghanistan’s peace process was also among the issues discussed between U.S. and Pakistani senior officials.
“The Secretary and the Foreign Minister discussed the importance of continued U.S.-Pakistan cooperation on the Afghanistan peace process,” read the statement by the U.S. State Department.
State Secretary Blinken also took to Twitter that he looked forward “to continuing [U.S.-Pakistan] cooperation on the Afghan peace process, tackling COVID-19, supporting regional stability,...
The Haitian senate currently comprises just a third of its usual 30 senators who nominated Joseph Lambert to take interim presidency.
The move plunges Haiti deeper into political crisis with its constitution unclear as to who should take over the reins of power in this kind of situation and rival political factions in disagreement
The acting interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has taken over the...
Pakistan has reported 35 deaths by COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, pushing the nationwide tally of fatalities to 22,555.
Latest figures by the country’s National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) indicated the infection tally rose by 1,828 to 971,304.
The south-Asian country’s daily coronavirus case load stayed above 1,500 for the fourth consecutive day.
Pakistan conducted 48,134 tests in the 24-hour period.
The COVID-19 positivity ratio...
Ahmad Zia Zia, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said an IED placed inside a property dealer shop went off around 9:10 Saturday morning.
He put the toll of casualties to two civilians killed and four others wounded.
An investigation had begun into the incident.
No individual or armed group has claimed responsibility for the attack....
In a statement issued Saturday, July 10, the presidential palace said that President Ghani has traveled to eastern Khost province and inaugurated the Khost airport.
Khost Airport project has cost 900 million AFG ($11 million), according to officials, and is the fifth among Afghanistan's international airports.
The President, leading a high-ranking delegation departed to the province to assess the overall situation there, read the presidency...
Mohammad Naeem Wardak, a Taliban spokesman for its political office in Qatar, said Thursday that a senior Taliban political figure and member of its negotiation team, Shahabuddin Delawar, heading a delegation including former spokesman Suhail Shaheen, has visited Moscow and met with Zamir Kabulov, a Russian diplomat and Putin’s special envoy to Afghanistan.
According to the spokesman, current situation in the country and the...
“I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan, with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome,” said U.S. President Joe Biden, justifying his decision to end U.S. military mission.
Mr. Biden called for unity among Afghan leaders, saying the Americans had not come to Afghanistan to nation build. “Afghan leaders have to come together and drive toward a future.“
Asked...
In a 6-clause statement issued Thursday, July 8, representatives from the Afghan government and the Taliban agreed that war is not the solution for Afghanistan’s crises and “all efforts must be directed towards a political and peaceful solution.”
“Some critical issues such as permanent peace, the agreed Islamic system, and how to achieve it, will be discussed and concluded during the next meeting, which...
According to a statement issued by Shaheen army corps in the north, Taliban wanted to detonate its vehicles loaded with explosives, targeting Afghan forces in the province.
The vehicles were targeted and eliminated by Afghan Air Force on Wednesday afternoon, said the statement.
Eight Taliban fighters were also killed as the air strike targeted the vehicles.
The armed group has yet to comment. ...
