SYDNEY( Reuters)-From his home in Sydney, Abdul Alizada is watching events unfold in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two and a half years ago, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest during an algebra class at the Mawoud Academy tutoring center.... At least 40 students, most from Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority, died as they studied for college entrance exams. Najibullah Yousefi, a teacher who survived the August 2018 blast, moved with his students to a new location.... Yousefi said. Hazaras, who make up roughly 10 to 20 percent of Afghanistan’s estimated 35 million people, are

Condolences and tributes poured in after Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme, passed away in Islamabad on Sunday. Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari expressed his sorrow at Dr Khan's death, calling him" a great patriotic son of Pakistan" and adding that" every Pakistani is in mourning today." Bilawal further said that Dr Qadeer oversaw the completion of a nuclear programme whose foundation was laid by his grandfather and PPP founder Zulfikar Ali B

KABUL, Afghanistan — The families flooded out of northern Afghanistan by the thousands, standing for hours in overcrowded buses and cramming into taxis to escape the Taliban’s swift advance.By Monday morning, many had arrived at a makeshift shelter in Kabul, the country’s capital.... With the Taliban encroaching on Kabul — a bastion of government control amid the insurgents’ onslaught — many fear that no corner of the country will be spared.“ The country is going back to the 1990s, ” said Noor