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Afghanistan vs Pakistan: When and how to watch AFG vs PAK 2nd ODI; live-streaming details

Cricket fans overall are preparing for the exceptionally expected second One Day Global (ODI) match among Afghanistan and Pakistan, set to occur tomorrow at the Public Arena in Karachi. As the cricketing scene watches anxiously, fans and specialists the same are anxious to see which group will dominate the competition in this exhilarating challenge.
The primary ODI of the series, held recently, saw Afghanistan arise triumphant in a firmly faced conflict. Afghanistan’s lively exhibition left fans on the two sides of the boundary enthusiastically anticipating the second portion of this amazingly exhilarating cricketing competition.
The second ODI among Afghanistan and Pakistan is planned to start at 3:00 PM neighborhood time (10:00 GMT) on August 26, 2023. Cricket fans can get all the activity live on different stages.
For watchers in Pakistan, the match will be communicated on Pakistan TV Enterprise (PTV) Sports. Moreover, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has collaborated with a few computerized stages to guarantee that fans can likewise stream the match on the web. The PCB’s true site and its YouTube channel will give live web based choices to cricket devotees.
Fans outside Pakistan can check out their nearby games channels for live inclusion or depend on web based real time features that have gotten telecom freedoms for the series.
Cricket specialists have been intently dissecting the groups’ exhibitions and techniques, offering significant experiences into what’s in store in the forthcoming ODI. Pakistani cricket legend, Wasim Akram, remarked on the meaning of this series, expressing, “This ODI series isn’t just about cricket; it’s a demonstration of the getting through cricketing connection among Afghanistan and Pakistan. The contention adds an additional layer of fervor.”
Moreover, Afghanistan’s commander, Rashid Khan, communicated his group’s assurance, saying, “We are here to contend at the most elevated level. We regard Pakistan’s group, yet we haven’t arrived to withdraw. Anticipate a serious and cutthroat match.”
The conflict between these two skilled groups vows to be an invigorating experience. Pakistan’s Babar Azam, known for his exquisite stroke play, and Afghanistan’s power-hitter Hazratullah Zazai will be the central members to look out for. The two groups will depend intensely on their bowling assaults, with Shaheen Afridi driving the speed for Pakistan, while Afghanistan’s twist sensation, Rashid Khan, will be a huge danger.
As cricket fever grasps the subcontinent and then some, the second ODI among Afghanistan and Pakistan holds the commitment of extreme focus activity and important minutes. With well-qualified conclusions and the energy of the players and fans, this challenge is set to be a cricketing display that will be associated with years to come. Cricket aficionados are encouraged to write in their schedules for August 26, 2023, as the Public Arena in Karachi plans to have this amazing standoff among Afghanistan and Pakistan.

August 25, 2023
Taliban warn Pakistan against targeting militants in Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban has given a harsh admonition to Pakistan, forewarning against any tactical activity focusing on aggressors inside Afghan region. This assertion comes in the midst of developing worries over cross-line tasks that might actually raise pressures in the all around delicate district.
The admonition from the Taliban was conveyed through their representative, Zabiullah Mujahid, during a public interview in Kabul on Monday. Mujahid expressed, “We have seen with extraordinary concern the new exercises of Pakistan’s security powers along the Afghan-Pakistani line. We emphatically ask Pakistan to abstain from any activities that could prompt the infringement of Afghan sway.”
This statement follows reports of expanded Pakistani military tasks close to the boundary with Afghanistan. While Pakistan has reliably declared that its endeavors are pointed toward annihilating fanatic components inside its own lines, Afghan authorities have communicated anxiety about the vicinity of these tasks to the Afghan domain.
Pakistan, a vital provincial player, shares a permeable boundary with Afghanistan that stretches for north of 2,600 kilometers (1,615 miles). This line has been a wellspring of worry for the two nations as it has generally worked with the development of aggressors, bootleggers, and evacuees.
The Taliban, presently in charge of Afghanistan, has reliably expressed its obligation to guaranteeing that Afghan soil isn’t utilized as a base for assaults against some other country. Mujahid underlined this in his articulation, saying, “We have done whatever it takes to forestall any unfriendly exercises beginning from An afghan area. We anticipate our neighbors, including Pakistan, to regard our sway and work towards territorial dependability.”
The circumstance has provoked global spectators to call for limitation on the two sides. The Unified Countries and a few nations have encouraged political channels to be the essential method for settling any worries connected with cross-line security.
Pakistan has not given a prompt reaction to the Taliban’s advance notice. In any case, it has kept up with that its activities are fundamental for public safety and that it stays focused on helping out Afghanistan in the battle against psychological oppression.
This most recent improvement highlights the mind boggling and delicate nature of the Afghan-Pakistani relationship. As Afghanistan explores its new political scene under Taliban rule, dealing with these provincial elements will without a doubt be really difficult for both Kabul and Islamabad

August 22, 2023
Michael McCaul is threatening to hold Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress over an Afghanistan withdrawal document. Here’s what’s happening.

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Rep. Michael McCaul doesn’t believe the Secretary of State has properly complied with a subpoena.

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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

May 8, 2023
India invited to join regional group on Afghanistan: Lavrov

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United Nations: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that India has been invited to join the core group of four countries neighbouring Afghanistan that say they seek to bring stability there.
The Quartet of Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran has been working together on Afghanistan “and we invited India as well” to join making it a quintet, he said at a news conference at the UN in New York on Tuesday.
“We want this Quintet to be constituted as something of a core for the format of neighbouring states,” he said.

The foreign ministers of the Quartet met in Samarkand in Uzbekistan earlier this month under the chairmanship of China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang and offered to cooperate with the Taliban regime in reconstruction and in economic matters.
But the ministers also expressed concern over the presence of terrorist organisations in Afghanistan that “continue to pose a serious threat to regional and global security”.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was at the meeting, while Pakistan was represented by Minster of State Hina Rabbani Khar.
Their statement included criticism of the West that said that “the NATO countries should bear primary responsibility for the predicament in Afghanistan” and should immediately lift sanctions on Afghanistan and return its frozen assets.
Posing a dilemma for India in joining a “Quintet” is that the four countries in the Quartet have the makings of a distinct anti-West grouping and two of them, Pakistan and China are hostile to New Delhi.

Lavrov said that while the Taliban regime, which has no international recognition, is a “reality on the ground and there’s a need to talk with them”, Russia will not recognise it “until they comply with (and) honour their own pledges”.
He made political inclusivity that extends beyond ethnicities to political groups a condition.
They will have to “ensure inclusivity in the governing structures, not just inclusivity at the ethnic level, but also at the political level”, he said.
While they include minorities like Hazaras, Tajiks and Uzbek they are all members of the Taliban, and “it is very important for there to be strong representation and political forces”, he added.
There is also the issue of human rights, including the rights of women and girls, he said.
These issues will be discussed at a meeting of special representatives for Afghanistan convened by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Doha next month, he added.
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April 26, 2023
Taliban take out ‘mastermind’ of bombing that killed 13 U.S. troops in Afghanistan

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After U.S. officials learned of the Taliban operation, the intelligence community worked with the military in recent days to independently confirm the terrorist’s death with “a high level of confidence,” the official said. The Biden administration is holding off on announcing the news until the family members of the victims of the Abbey Gate attack have been notified.
“We are not partnering with the Taliban, but we do think the outcome is a significant one,” the senior official said.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized the chaotic withdrawal after the rapid collapse of the Afghan government in August, 2021. They have also questioned whether the Biden administration has the ability to prevent another terrorist attack on the homeland without a presence on the ground in Afghanistan.
But the senior administration official noted that the Taliban operation validates Biden’s decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan.
It “reflects moreover the president’s judgment that we did not need to remain on the ground, in harm’s way, in Afghanistan in perpetuity in order to effectively address any threat that might emanate from Afghanistan,” the official said.
Kirby said the Biden administration has “made clear to the Taliban that it is their responsibility to ensure that they give no safe haven to terrorists, whether al Qa’ida or ISIS-K.”
The U.S. government has been hunting the Islamic State member responsible for the attack since Aug. 26, 2021, when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside of the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport where U.S. service members were working to evacuate American citizens and at-risk Afghans. In addition to the service members killed, at least 170 Afghans also died in the attack.
At the time, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the bombing. After an investigation, the Pentagon concluded that it was the result of a single bomber, not the “complex” attack U.S. officials initially described.

Since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan on Aug. 31, 2021, Pentagon officials have warned that ISIS-K is becoming an increasing threat. In October of that year, Colin Kahl, the undersecretary for policy, told lawmakers that the group could be able to launch attacks on the West and its allies within six months to two years.
Although the U.S. military no longer has a presence on the ground in Afghanistan, the U.S. still maintains an “over-the-horizon” capability to hunt terrorists there, military leaders have said. The Pentagon has conducted a number of operations in the country since August 2021, including one that resulted in the death of 9/11 architect and al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in August of 2022.
In January, the military took out Bilal al-Sudani, a financial facilitator for ISIS and ISIS-K, who was hiding in Somalia, Kirby said. The U.S. and its partners have also killed many ISIS leaders in Syria in recent years, he added.
“We have made good on the president’s pledge to establish an over-the-horizon capacity to monitor potential terrorist threats, not only from in Afghanistan but elsewhere around the world where that threat has metastasized as we have done in Somalia and Syria,” Kirby said.
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April 26, 2023
State Dept. should’ve done more to prepare for worst-case scenario of Afghanistan withdrawal, Blinken says

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The State Department declined to comment on the private workforce engagement.
During his opening remarks, Blinken highlighted five lessons the department gleaned during the review led by Ambassador Dan Smith, which spanned the time period from January 2020 to August 2021.
The first was that State should have more urgently planned and prepared for a worst-case scenario in Afghanistan. A lack of planning muscle at the department — especially for the most dire circumstances — has long been a complaint of some U.S. diplomats.
The department didn’t foresee the Afghan government’s rapid collapse as the Taliban swiftly took over the country. “This was seen as a very low probability, but obviously, potentially very high impact event and more could and should have been done to prepare for it,” Blinken said.
Another was that State’s own contingency plans were “inhibited” by a concern that such open preparation “might send the wrong signal to Afghans and to the government that we’d lost confidence in it and precipitate exactly what we hoped to prevent, which was its collapse.”
Other findings included a lack of clear authority of who led the evacuation operation, “competing and conflicting guidance” from Washington on evacuation priorities and a lack of clear tracking of Americans in Afghanistan.
“Even though there were things that we got right, things that we got wrong, things that we could do better, it’s really important to me that no matter what, this country knows and appreciates the fact that you all served with incredible dedication and incredible distinction,” Blinken said.
The secretary then faced questions from the in-person and online audiences, some of whom interrogated the handling of the withdrawal and treatment of officials upon return from a brutal assignment.

One person asked whether Blinken would provide Congress with a copy of a July 2021 dissent cable that warned of Kabul’s collapse following an American military withdrawal. House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) subpoenaed the State Department for the document.
Blinken said he likely would not do so, adding that handing over the cable would have a “chilling effect” on speaking truth to power within the department. Engaging in dissent “is a vital principle that we need to uphold,” Blinken said to applause.
“This principle of protecting that channel overrides other considerations that are real and relevant in terms of making the cable available.”
The dissent channel is a long-standing official avenue for State Department employees to voice alternative opinions on policy and other matters. The submissions are generally kept private to allow people to feel free in offering what can be unpopular views.
Toward the end of the session, a woman urged Blinken to release the after-action report so that State and U.S. government officials — as well as the American public — could have a chance to review its contents.
Not releasing the report leads to a sense of “disillusionment” within the department, especially those who were in Kabul during the withdrawal, she said, because it feels “like there’s more concern about blowback than interest in being transparent.”
Blinken said one reason he wanted to keep the report under wraps was so others couldn’t “see some of the vulnerabilities and deficiencies that we have, which is information that would not be good to share in a broad way, even as we work, of course, to correct those.”
Nahal Toosi contributed to this report.
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April 7, 2023
Mortar mine blast leaves 2 children dead in Afghanistan

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Kabul: Two children were killed as a mortar mine left over from past wars went off in Afghanistan’s eastern Wardak province, provincial police spokesman Yusuf Israr said Sunday.
The incident took place when children in Sayedabad district found a mortar mine on Saturday evening and began playing with it. The device suddenly exploded, killing two children of a family, the official told reporters.
This is the third blast of its kind, which has claimed the lives of innocent children in Afghanistan over the past six days, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A similar blast claimed the lives of two children and injured four others in the northern Jawzjan province on Tuesday, while another child lost his life and three others were injured as an unexploded mine left over from past wars exploded in southern Zabul province on Friday.
War-torn Afghanistan is reportedly one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world, as dozens of people, mostly children, are killed and maimed every month due to the blasts of unexploded devices left over from the past four decades of wars and civil strife.
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April 2, 2023
Senators voted down two more GOP amendments — on Ukraine and Afghanistan — as they prepare to wrap debate on repealing the 1991 and 2022 Iraq AUMFs.

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Opponents of both measures said the bill was not the proper place for the ideas.

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March 29, 2023
Afghanistan: Earthquake of 4.3 magnitude jolts Kabul

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Kabul: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 struck 85 kilometres East of Kabul in Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to National Center (NCS) for Seismology.
Taking to its official Twitter handle, the NCS stated that the earthquake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres.
National Center (NCS) for Seismology tweeted, “Earthquake of Magnitude:4.3, Occurred on 29-03-2023, 05:49:06 IST, Lat: 34.45 & Long: 70.13, Depth: 10 Km ,Location: 85km E of Kabul, Afghanistan.”
Further details are awaited.
Earlier on Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale struck 25 kilometres South of the Farkhar district of Takhar province in Afghanistan, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
According to the USGS, the quake occurred at 04:53:29 (UTC+05:30) at a depth of 124.1 Km. The epicentre was detected at 36.345°N and 69.912°E respectively.
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March 29, 2023
Kabul rejects Washington’s claim over IS strength in Afghanistan

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Kabul: The Taliban-led caretaker government in Afghanistan has dismissed Washington’s claim over the alleged stronger presence of Daesh or Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan as utterly fabricated.
“The statements of US officials about the number of IS militants in Afghanistan are not true. Daesh militants have already been reduced in ranks and suppressed,” chief spokesman of the Afghan caretaker administration Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted.
US Central Command chief Gen. Michael Kurilla, according to media reports, has said “IS is stronger today in Afghanistan” and warned of a possible IS attack on the interests of US and allied nations within six months, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Brushing aside the baseless allegations by the US general on the IS strength in Afghanistan, Mujahid said on his Twitter account, “The interest of the US officials in this matter and their grandiosity is aiding and abetting the IS insurgents, which should be stopped.”
The Afghan caretaker government, which has downplayed Daesh, or the IS group, as a serious threat, has vowed to crack down on any armed opponents in the war-ravaged country.
The Afghan security forces have killed four armed militants affiliated with the rival IS group in two separate operations on the outskirts of Kabul over the past week.
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March 26, 2023