In the group, five individuals had applied for entry visas, wile the remaining doctors had sought extension of their existing visas.
ICC Chairman Jay Shah has paid tribute to former Afghanistan quick Shapoor Zadran, remembering him as one of the players who helped shape Afghanistan's rise in international cricket.
The attacks were carried out on Tuesday night, read a statement from the Afghan ministry. It added that they targetted "ISIS facilities" in the Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
The Taliban has alleged that Pakistani military airstrikes targeted civilian areas in eastern Afghanistan, killing and injuring dozens of civilians as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate.
The emerging US-Iran agreement has significant implications for India, including energy corridors, fertilizer supplies, and revival of the Chabahar Port project. As Gulf tensions ease, New Delhi faces a strategic crossroads that could reshape connectivity with Central Asia and Afghanistan.
Though the media in both countries framed the negotiations, mediated by Turkiye and Qatar, as a high-stakes, short-term diplomatic effort, but emphasised different fault lines.
The 2,640-km-long Durand Line is more than just a frontier. It is a century-old scar on the map of South Asia - a scar that has bled into three Anglo-Afghan wars, the Cold War, the Taliban’s rise, and today’s great power rivalries. For the Afghan Pashtun, this line is not history.
Earlier on October 10, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had announced that India’s Technical Mission in Kabul would be upgraded to a full-fledged Embassy of India.
Dr Naseem Baloch, the Chairman of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), vehemently criticised Pakistan's assault on neighbouring Afghanistan, asserting that they constitute a breach of international law and a disrespect to the dignity and honour of a free Afghanistan and its esteemed populace.
In a post shared by BNM on X, he noted that Pakistan had misjudged the situation by believing that the creation of the Taliban government in Afghanistan would render the Durand Line issue inconsequential and that Kabul's foreign policy would align entirely with Islamabad's interests.
