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Afghan Cricketer Rashid Khan likely to Play in Big Bash League

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

32444534343Afghanistan’s star player Rashid Khan is expected to feature in Australia’s next summer Big Bash League (BBL).

The 18-year-old Rashid Khan will be the first-ever Afghan player to play in the league.

The teenage spin sensation is currently playing in the Indian Premier League and has taken the lucrative T20 tournament by storm this year, picking up 14 wickets in 12 matches for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Rashid Khan’s IPL teammate Moises Henriques who is the captain of Sydney Sixers franchise in BBL has revealed his interest in signing him.

Henriques said the teenage leg-spinner could be an ideal recruit for the men in magenta.

“I must say as captain of the Sixers I have been contemplating our little leggie (Rashid) we have over here,” Henriques said cited by cricket.com.au.

“I still can’t pick him in the nets. He bowls nearly 100kph and gets the ball to spin a little bit both ways.

“He is hard work especially over here in these conditions but it is something definitely worth contemplating for the Sixers.”

Rashid Khan suggested a number of BBL clubs had already expressed interest in singing him.

“My dream is to play Big Bash. I would love to be the first Afghani to play in the Big Bash,” he said.

“I’m looking forward to playing in BBL if I get a chance. I have performed well so far in the IPL and hopefully that will help me be part of Big Bash.”

“Three or four players have spoken to me about Big Bash and couple of franchises have contacted me already. 

“Once I finish IPL hopefully we can have a good conversation about me playing in Big Bash this year.”

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1402: Afghanistan fails to gain international recognition

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(Last Updated On: March 19, 2024)

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) spent this past solar year – 1402 – trying to gain international recognition and take up its seat in the United Nations.

Due to certain policies, and restrictions against Afghan women and girls, the international community has not only imposed sanctions on the government but has also worked to isolate the IEA.

Western consensus has been that the IEA needs to revise some policies including those relating to human and women’s rights.

But in addition to these problems, the Islamic Emirate made progress in diplomatic relations with some countries in 1402 – China being the first to send an official ambassador to Kabul. In turn, Beijing followed suit by welcoming the IEA’s ambassador.

Some Afghan embassies, however, that are still run by diplomats appointed by the previous government, slowly started forging ties with the IEA – including the Netherlands and Spain.

Over the past year, diplomats aligned with the Islamic Emirate also took control of the Afghan embassy and consulates in India.

In 1402, Turkmenistan removed the name of the Islamic Emirate from the list of sanctions and terrorist groups in that country.

In the meantime, Iran, Afghanistan’s western neighbor, became embroiled in a spat with the IEA over the issue of water rights from the Helmand River.

Relations with Pakistan also soured somewhat, as Islamabad has accused the IEA of letting Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) hideout in the country.

These tensions came to a head when Islamabad implemented the process of forced deportation of more than one million Afghan immigrants.

But analysts believe that the neighboring countries and the region have not been able to agree on a specific policy for interaction with the Islamic Emirate.

According to them, the realization of this agreement requires the implementation of conditions set by these countries and the international community, including the formation of an inclusive government, and respect for the rights of women and girls; and ethnic and religious minorities by the Islamic Emirate.

This year, the IEA’s cabinet remained a caretaker government, although dozens of former former government officials and politicians continued to return home.

However, the Islamic Emirate considers the year 1402 as full of achievements and emphasizes that in this year, progress has been made in all fields, especially in terms of expanding relations with other countries.

However, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate considers the lack of global legitimacy to be driven by a few countries – countries which influence the UN.

The Islamic Emirate currently has 38 active diplomatic missions in countries. In addition, Azerbaijan recently said it wants to open an embassy in Kabul.

Experts say however, 1403 will be a telling year, in terms of whether the IEA is recognized as the legitimate government or not.

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Dozens of needy families in west Kabul receive Bayat’s Ramadan aid

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Dozens of needy families in the western suburbs of Kabul have been given much needed food aid for Ramadan by Bayat Foundation.

Foundation officials said the campaign is conducted during the holy month of Ramadan in order to help those in need.

The aid packages include essential food items such as flour and oil.

Residents in the west of Kabul, who received the packages, welcomed Bayat Foundation’s initiative but appealed for more assistance from other organizations.

Bayat Foundation is considered to be a key charitable organization in the country and has done valuable work in the past twenty years. The foundation has assisted victims of natural disasters, implemented public benefit projects, and helped the needy in different seasons.

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1402, a difficult year for Afghan women and girls

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As this solar year, 1402 draws to a close, the suspension of high school and higher education for girls continues, despite repeated calls to the Afghan government to reconsider this decision.

This year, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials repeatedly said they plan to reopen schools above grade 6, and universities, to girls – once plans were finalized. However, nothing has come of this.

In many meetings, both in Afghanistan and outside the country, repeated requests were made to the IEA to provide education for everyone – and some officials of the Islamic Emirate even expressed their dissatisfaction over the decision.

Representatives of the United Nations and countries of the world have repeatedly emphasized that the right to education should be given to women and girls, but these requests were not accepted by the Islamic Emirate.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said: “Supporting the rights of women and girls is a central part of our foreign policy. Over the past three years, we have put forward concrete strategies, policies and programs to support women and girls around the world. It’s not just rhetoric, it’s action.”

Spokespersons of the Islamic Emirate said many times in interviews with the media that schools and universities for girls would reopen. However, they did not say when the wait for girls would end.

Now, almost three years after schools, above grade 6, were closed to girls, the hope is that in the new academic year there will be changes in the policy of the Islamic Emirate and the school bell will ring with a good news for girls.

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