Hashmanullah Shahid's Afghanistan had a memorable outing on Friday after they hammered South Africa by 177 runs at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. With the win, the Afghans also claimed the series 2-0 with one match left on September 22.

It was the “unveiling” video that triggered the nausea. Hashmatullah Shahidi and Tim Southee, the Test captains of Afghanistan and New Zealand, stood either side of a trophy contested last week by their two nations in a one-off match in India,

Opener Javed Ahmadi scored 51 (51) and middle-order batter Samiullah Shinwari scored 96 (147). They were 192/9 when Shinwari got out but the last-wicket pair, Hamid Hassan and Shapoor Zadran, got them over the line with 15* and 12* respectively in the last over of the chase.

Taliban chief Hibatullah announced a gradual ban on cricket, dispelling the claims that the Taliban has become more moderate than in the past. Many of the group’s apologists remain under the misguided belief that the Taliban is adopting a more moderate approach, but the ban on…

Three years after seizing power, the Taliban is cracking down on women’s rights. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, some hoped that its new rule would be much less extreme than the first time around,

Veteran Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum has reportedly called on groups that oppose the fundamentalist Taliban to unite to create a parallel government-in-exile for Afghanistan that will move to dislodge the extremist group from power.