Pakistan&s central bank asked its employees to work from home two days a week and hold more virtual meetings as the country looks to conserve fuel and ensure it doesn&t run out of US dollars, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

In a Twitter message on Thursday, State Bank of Pakistan told its staff to opt for virtual meetings, car pooling and...

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Paktika&s provincial health director Dr Hekmatullah Esmat said early Thursday they are desperate for humanitarian aid to assist survivors of Wednesday&s deadly 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Afghanistan&s south-eastern region.

Speaking to a team from Ariana News, Esmat said so far at least 3,000 families in Paktika alone are in...

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In response to Wednesday&s deadly earthquake that hit the south-eastern provinces of Paktika and Khost in Afghanistan, the Bayat Foundation launched an urgent international appeal for donations for the families of victims and survivors.

In addition to the appeal, the foundation also sent an ambulance, doctors and a trailer load of medical...

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The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Haibatullah Akhundzada on Wednesday issued his condolences to families of victims who died in the deadly earthquake in Khost and Paktika province earlier in the day.

According to a statement issued by Akhundzada, the State Ministry for Disaster Management and all relevant officials,...

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More than 250,000 Afghans seeking asylum have arrived in Pakistan since January 2021, according to the UN refugee agency.

Qaiser Khan Afridi, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Pakistan, has said that Pakistan is facing new inflows of asylum seekers from Afghanistan after the Islamic Emirate&s takeover of Kabul.

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Wednesday&s earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed at least 920 people and injured 600 more in remote mountain villages in Afghanistan&s eastern Paktika and Khost provinces.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Sharafuddin Muslim, the deputy state minister for disaster management, confirmed the revised death toll and said Barmal...

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