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Russia views Pakistan key partner in economy, energy growth
Dunya News
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Business Business Russia views Pakistan key partner in economy, energy growth Close Eyes August cargo rail link Published On: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:02:21 PKT ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - A top Russian official on Thursday described Pakistan as an...
Russian Dy PM tells high-powered body: Putin seeks to deepen trade, energy cooperation
Business Recorder
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July 10, 2025
ISLAMABAD: Describing Pakistan and Russia as “natural allies”, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Alexei Overchuk has said that President Vladimir Putin was strongly in favour of further deepening of trade and energy cooperation with Pakistan in all...
Bizarre tourism video invites Americans to visit Afghanistan
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Russia returns to Afghanistan
Business Recorder
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July 10, 2025
EDITORIAL: The irony could not be more exquisite. Russia has become the first country to formally recognise the Taliban regime in Afghanistan — three decades after the Soviet Union was bled out of the same country by the Taliban’s ideological...
India Abstains UN Vote on Afghanistan, Slams ‘Business as Usual’ Approach to Terrorism, Taliban
The Times of India
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July 8, 2025
India abstained from a United Nations General Assembly resolution on the situation in Afghanistan, warning that a 'business as usual' approach will not work in the current humanitarian and security crisis. India's Permanent Representative to the...
Bitcoin is aiding Afghanistan's human rights push
Cryptopolitan
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July 10, 2025
Digital currencies are providing Women in Afghanistan with the tools to stand up against an oppressive regime. That’s according to the Digital Citizen Fund (DCF) founder Roya Mahboob, who was speaking in an interview on the sidelines of the...
No horse trading at donkey market: Pakistan’s oldest bazaar opens with unique donkeys and mules for sale
Pakistan Today
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July 10, 2025
BADIN: One of Pakistan’s oldest and largest donkey markets opened its annual fair at Tando Ghulam Ali, attracting large crowds and colourful animals from across the country. High-breed donkeys and mules with unique names like Rocket, Missile,...
San Diego contestant on 'The Great American Recipe' shares his Afghan food and roots
KPBS - California
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July 10, 2025
"The Great American Recipe" season 4 premieres this weekend — you can begin streaming it Friday on the PBS app, or watch Mondays at 9 p.m. on KPBS-TV beginning July 14. The PBS show "The Great American Recipe" follows a group of home cooks as they...
45-yr-old Afghan man’s marriage to 6-yr-old sparks outrage
New National Star
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July 10, 2025
A 45-year-old man in Afghanistan has married a six-year-old girl in a ceremony so shocking it reportedly drew condemnation even from the Taliban. According to US-based Afghan outlet Amu.tv, the marriage took place in the Marjah district after the...
No AC, No Worry: Afghanistan Taxi Drivers Use 'Desi Jugaad' To Beat The Heat | Watch
News18
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July 10, 2025
Last Updated:July 10, 2025, 19:27 IST Taxi drivers in Kandahar, Afghanistan, use handmade cooling systems to combat 40°C heat. These systems, costing 3,000 Afghanis, connect to the taxi's battery and solar panels. An Afghan taxi driver installs a...
Afghanistan on brink of emergency as mass deportations accelerate, UN Warns
Ariana News
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July 9, 2025
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has issued a stark warning that the country faces a rapidly unfolding humanitarian emergency due to a dramatic increase in the forced return of Afghan migrants from neighboring...
Adopted entrepreneur keeps Flintoff hopeful's cricket dream alive
St. Helens Star
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Teenage Afghan refugee Adnan Miakhel shot to prominence on the hit show, which followed Flintoff’s attempts to build a cricket team for disadvantaged youngsters. Miakhel arrived in the UK as a 15-year-old unable to read, write or speak a word of...
Post-Kremlin recognition, Afghanistan hopes Central Asian countries wi...
The Morung Express
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New Delhi, July 11 (IANS): Earlier this month, Russia became the first country to give recognition to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and embrace the de facto Taliban administration in Kabul as a legitimate partner. No other country has till...
Post-Kremlin Recognition, Afghanistan Hopes Central Asian Countries Will Follow Suit
Ommcom News
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July 10, 2025
New Delhi: Earlier this month, Russia became the first country to give recognition to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and embrace the de facto Taliban administration in Kabul as a legitimate partner. No other country has till now recognized...
45-year-old Afghan man weds six-year-old; Taliban says ‘can join husband at 9’
Mint
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July 10, 2025
A 45-year-old man has married a six-year-old girl in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, sparking outrage and renewed concerns over child marriage under Taliban rule. US-based Afghan outlet Amu.tv reported that Taliban officials were “horrified” after...
Wal-What? Taliban arrests 45-year-old Afghan man for marrying 6-year-old girl because he didn't wait till she was 9!
The Week
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In a horrific development from Afghanistan, a 45-year-old man, already married twice, wed a six-year-old in the Helmand province. When the Taliban administration came to know about this, there were repercussions, and the groom and the father of...
The New York Times: Staff news from Business
Editor and Publisher
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Ben Casselman Ellen Pollock | The New York Times Earlier this year, Ben was elevated to chief economics correspondent. He’ll continue to cover the U.S. economy and economic policy. As we all know, Ben is our all-star collaborator and economics...
Afghanistan is starving—and its farmers are fighting to save the poppy
The Print
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July 9, 2025
The Brotherhood of Universal Love, it called itself, a label that, in 1969, invited no ironic raising of eyebrows. From Balkh and Mazar-i–Sharif, where children sold hashish beads, hashish-filled belts, and hashish-heeled shoes, members of the...
The Taliban’s Slow Dismantling of Afghan Media
Just Security
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July 10, 2025
In November 2024, people in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province were met with a surprise when they tuned on the nightly television news: a blank screen. Instead of an anchor sitting at the usual desk, all they saw was Mah-e-Now channel’s logo...
Fatigued Afghan taxi drivers take novel approach to staying cool
Dawn
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July 10, 2025
Afghan taxi drivers have cobbled together a creative solution to spare them and their passengers from the sweltering heat. In southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar city, where temperatures easily exceed 40 degrees Celsius, blue taxis can be spotted with...