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Nearly 1.2 Million Afghans Back Home From Pakistan Since September 2023: Report
(MENAFN- IANS) Kabul, August 1 (IANS) Nearly 1.2 million Afghans have returned from Pakistan since September 2023, according to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report. In the report, the UNHCR noted that many of the Afghans...

Sports News | Pakistan to Face Afghanistan and UAE in T20 Tri-series Ahead of Asia Cup
New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): Pakistan will lock horns with Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates in a triangular series which will be played in the T20 format from August 29 onwards, as per the ICC. The tournament will take place ahead of...

Pak pharma sector getting global recognition
LAHORE: Pakistan's pharma sector is getting global recognition due to the support of Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC). Haleon, a world leader in consumer health, has announced 12 million dollars investment in Pakistan. The company...

UFV plans walkout in solidarity with women in Afghanistan
The Abbotsford campus is hosting the third annual event on Aug. 14 It's been four years since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, with countless human rights violations plaguing the country since then, especially among the female...

Texas Man Charged With Killing Afghan Father: What To Know
Newsweek has exclusively obtained, through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the official charge sheet for Katia Trevon Bougere, a 31-year-old Texas man indicted on a murder charge in the April shooting of Abdul Rahman Waziri in...

MP gets insight into health research improving lives
MP Al Carns saw firsthand the care provided to some of the region’s sickest youngsters during a visit to Birmingham Children’s Hospital. The Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak met with medics on the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), where he...

Iranian press review: Construction industry hit hard by Afghan workers' deportation
Construction stalls amid mass deportations The mass deportation of undocumented Afghan migrants from Iran has caused serious problems for the country’s construction industry, which relies heavily on low-wage Afghan labour. The UN refugee agency...

The Guardian view on the other Afghan scandal: countries are forcing refugees back to Taliban rule | Editorial
The British public discovered only very belatedly that an enormous accidental data breach by an official three years ago put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of torture and death. Some of them had worked with British forces in Afghanistan. The result...
Founder of Company that Produced Software Later Stolen by CIA Believes Software Was Used to Develop Digital Surveillance in Afghanistan
File photo from June 30, 2021, showing an employee scanning the eyes of a woman for biometric data needed to apply for a passport, at the passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan. Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of...

Tory MS raises concerns about appropriateness of hotel to temporarily house Afghan refugees
Andrew RT Davies MS – Image: Jacob King Ted Peskett, local democracy reporter The former leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd has questioned the appropriateness of a site with limited access to facilities and services that’s being used...

Concerns raised over hotel used to house Afghans being resettled in the UK
16:26, 31 Jul 2025Updated 08:20, 01 Aug 2025 A Member of the Senedd has questioned the appropriateness of a site with limited access to facilities and services that’s being used as part of a Government scheme to temporarily house Afghan citizens....

Tucked away in One Big Beautiful Bill, a plan to disqualify refugees from health care assistance
Daily Newsletter | MinnPost's top stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Saturday. As the One Big Beautiful Bill ricocheted from proposal to signed law by President Donald Trump, Minnesota immigration advocates kept a close eye on how the...

With Trump, the US Is Getting a Taste of its Own Medicine
July 31, 2025 The pathological U.S. support for dictatorships in the Middle East is blowing back across the Atlantic Ocean. Ad Policy Donald Trump meets with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House on...

Nearly 370,000 Afghans return from Iran in two weeks, IOM reports
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported a rise in the return of Afghan migrants from Iran, with nearly 370,000 people crossing back into Afghanistan over a two-week period in July. Source: Reuters IOM said the sudden surge...
One killed, 14 injured in central Afghanistan road accident
KABUL, July 31 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and 14 others injured after their vehicle veered off the road and turned turtle in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, the state-owned Bakhtar News Agency reported late Wednesday. The mishap...

Pharmaceutical exports: some prescriptions
“The global pharmaceutical market is in a state of flux due to major restructuring, both in terms of the demand and supply. This presents a unique opportunity for the sector in Pakistan to take timely action by positioning itself strategically to...
EMPHNET provides solutions to address health challenges in region
Ammon News - As health systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region face many overlapping challenges, especially health risks caused by conflict and climate change, a new regional report is strongly calling for a shift toward sustainable and...

Afghan Returnees Face Hardship Amid Forced Deportations from Iran, Pakistan
With the increasing deportation of Afghan migrants from neighboring countries, a number of Afghan citizens have returned to the country after years of residing in Pakistan and Iran. Abdul Sattar, one of the returnees who came back from Pakistan...
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Investigating the Success Rate of Vaginal Delivery After Cesarean Section and Its Associated Factors in Afghan Women: Insights from a Maternity Hospital in Kabul [Response to Letter]
Parvin Golzareh,1 Halima Baha,2 Fahima Aram,3 Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai,4 Razia Rabizada,5 Massoma Jafari6 1Department of Advanced Midwifery Skills, School of Midwifery, Kabul University of Medical Sciences “Abu Ali Ibn Sina”, Kabul, Afghanistan;...
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Assessment of Hand Hygiene Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Among Health Sciences Students in Herat, Afghanistan: A Cross-Sectional Study [Letter]
Dear editor The reviewers have assessed the paper “Assessment of Hand Hygiene Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Among Health Sciences Students in Herat, Afghanistan” by Ejaz et al.1 This study provides valuable insight into hand hygiene (HH)...