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Over half of Afghanistan's provinces fall to Taliban
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): Taliban has toppled six provincial capitals in the past 24 hours which brings the total number of provinces fallen to the terrorists to 18, local media reported on Friday.
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Taliban capture former Afghan warlord after Herat falls
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): Former Mujahideen leader and senior member of Jamaat-e-Islami party, Ismail Khan, whose militia helped US forces topple the Taliban in 2001, was captured on Friday by the Taliban along with other top government officials, local media citing sources said.
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Pak soldiers clash with Afghan protesters at Chaman border
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 13 (ANI): Pakistani forces fired tear gas and clashed with the Afghans protesting at the Chaman border over the Taliban's closure of the border area, local media reported on Friday.
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7 killed in separate fire incidents in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], August 12 (ANI): Five people, including two women, died of suffocation after a fire erupted in their house in Pakistan's Karachi, local media reported on Thursday.
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Afghan President offers Taliban power sharing deal to end violence
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 12 (ANI): The Ashraf Ghani-led Afghanistan government on Thursday has offered a "share of power" to the Taliban in a bid to stop the escalating violence in the war-torn country where the insurgent group has captured 10 provincial capitals so far, local media report
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Sri Lanka mulls improving labor protections for domestic workers
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 12 (ANI/Xinhua): Sri Lanka's Minister of Labor Nimal Siripala De Silva has proposed amendments to local labor laws that would increase protections for domestic workers and make them eligible for pension schemes, local media reported Thursday.
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Pakistan: Inflation causes hike in food prices, impacts lower income group
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] August 12 (ANI): Inflation in Pakistan has caused an increase in food prices in the country, worsening conditions of lower-middle-income households, local media reported.
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Afghan army chief replaced amid Taliban offensive, say local media
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 11 (ANI): Afghanistan President on Wednesday replaced the country's Army chief General amid escalating offensive of Taliban, which has so far captured nine provincial capitals in the war-torn country amid the US and NATO troops finalising their pullout.
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Afghan acting Finance Minister steps down, leaves country amid Taliban-led
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 11 (ANI): Afghanistan's acting Finance Minister Khalid Payenda has stepped down and left the country following pressure from the presidential palace, local media reported.
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China sentences Canadian businessman to 11 years in prison for spying
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 11 (ANI): Canadian Michael Spavor, detained by China in 2018, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by a Chinese court in Liaoning Province on charges of espionage, local media reported.
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7th Afghan provincial capital falls to Taliban
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 10 (ANI): Taliban on Tuesday captured Farah, the capital of Afghanistan's Farah province, local media reported, with the city becoming the seventh provincial capital to fall to the offensive of the insurgent group that has in less than a week overrun several key a
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'China hacks groups in Israel, Iran to gain business interests'
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Israel], August 10 (ANI): China has hacked multiple public and private sector groups of Israel in an attempt to gain business interests, a local media report said on Tuesday. The Chinese cyberattacks have been doing the same thing in Iran, Saudi Arabia and a variety of other count
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