Declan Herald: The national cricket team of Afghanistan is quite lucky to participate in the ongoing T20 World Cup in the UAE. Next time, the 11-member squad may not be able to compete in such a high-profile event because the International Cricket Council (ICC) is yet to decide whether to suspend the Afghan team’s membership or let them play, TRT World reported. Click here to read more (external link).
New Zealand beat Afghanistan to make T20 World Cup semis
Ariana: New Zealand crushed a billion Indian dreams and breezed into the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup with an eight-wicket victory against Afghanistan in a key Super 12 match on Sunday. Click here to read more (external link).
Other Sports News
After one Year, Dawood Siawash Insists on the Photos of Central Bank Cameras
Yama Siawash
8am: Dawood Siawash the father of Yama Siawash today (Sunday, November 7) demanded the photos of the Central Bank cameras in the first year of his son’s assassination. Dawood Siawash also blamed ex-President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and former Central Bank Governor Ajmal Ahmadi for not identifying his son’s murderer. Click here to read more (external link).
Afghanistan To Launch Landmark Polio Vaccination Drive Nationwide
Child getting polio drops (file photo)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
November 7, 2021
A polio vaccination drive across Afghanistan, the first of its kind in years, is scheduled to be launched on November 8, the United Nations Children’s Fund announced.
“Vaccinate your #children against polio and protect their future!” the UN agency urged families in Afghanistan via Twitter on November 7.
UNICEF and another UN agency, the World Health Organization (WHO), announced last month that the Taliban leadership had given its support to resuming house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan.
The nationwide vaccination campaign was negotiated with the Taliban leadership by the WHO and UNICEF, but security concerns still exist as polio vaccination teams have been attacked in the country in the past.
The Taliban in the past accused polio vaccination teams of gathering intelligence on their militants, but they are now the de facto government of Afghanistan after toppling the internationally backed Kabul government in August.
The inoculation campaign “will be the first in over three years to reach all children in Afghanistan, including more than 3.3 million children in some parts of the country who have previously remained inaccessible to vaccination campaigns,” the WHO and UNICEF said in a statement on October 18.
Health officials say the drive aims to cover nearly 10 million children under the age of 5 against the virus, which can cause paralysis and death.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are among only a few countries in the world where polio is still endemic.
With reporting by dpa
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Tolo News in Dari – November 6, 2021
Afghan carpet industry struggling amid ongoing trade crisis
Ariana: Afghan carpet sellers said on Saturday that their sales have declined and that it has become difficult to export to international markets. “We still have products, but our sales are very low. We used to sell three or four carpets a day, but now we sell that number a week.” Click here to read more (external link).
More Economic News
The Registration of New 40 COVID-19 Cases
8am: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said in a recent census of the COVID-19 situation in Afghanistan that 40 people have been infected with the virus in the last 24 hours. The statistic was published by the WHO on (Friday, November 5). By the registration of newly infected patients, the total cases of COVID-19 have increased to 156,363. Click here to read more (external link).
4 Teams Play on 2nd Day of Football Tournament in Kabul
Tolo News: In the second day of the football tournament in the capital city of Kabul, four teams played against each other. The first match was held between Simorgh Alborz and De Maiwand Atalanformer, with Simorgh Alborz winning 3-0 on Saturday morning..The second match was held between Toofan Harirod and Oqaban Hindukush later in the afternoon, with Toofan Harirod winning 3-1. Click here to read more (external link).
Baby handed to U.S. soldiers in chaos of Afghanistan airlift still missing
Reuters: It was a split second decision. Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya found themselves and their five children on Aug. 19 in a chaotic crowd outside the gates of the Kabul airport in Afghanistan when a U.S. soldier, from over the tall fence, asked if they needed help. Click here to read more (external link).
Taliban Arrests Two In Connection With Killing Of Four Women, Including Activist, In Afghanistan
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi
November 6, 2021
Two people have been arrested in connection with the killing of four women, including a rights activist, in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
A Taliban Interior Ministry official confirmed the arrests in a video statement posted on Twitter on November 6, saying the suspects confessed to luring the women to the home where their bodies were discovered this week.
The official did not say if the suspects had confessed to the killings, and offered no motive.
One of the victims has been identified as Frozan Safi, 29, a university lecturer and women’s rights activist with the Zainuddin Mohammad Babar Cultural Center. Safi sought to join her fiance abroad and feared of her future under the Taliban, which seized control of the country in mid-August, according to the director of the center.
The director told AP that Safi left her home three weeks ago to meet with someone she believed could help her leave Afghanistan.
With reporting by AP and AFP