The quake’s epicentre was located at a latitude of 36.10°N and a longitude of 71.20°E, with a depth of 130 kilometers.
In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his path-breaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century geopolitical chessboard involving Britain and Russia.
There is an unconfirmed report that the US has redeployed at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. This base was the command centre for NATO and US forces throughout their occupation of Afghanistan.
Within Pakistan, the unforgiving regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan have had an especially violent ‘gun-culture’, for a long time. Bloody, inter-tribal, anti- ‘foreigner’ and familial feuds are a way of life, and often the family sentinels peer at their neighbours through rifle ports.
Afghan refugees awaiting resettlement to the United States have written an 'open letter' to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to immediately halt their deportation to Afghanistan as the March 31 deadline approaches closer.
Maulvi Shamsuddin Sharihati, former deputy Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, appointed as Attorney General of Afghanistan
The Taliban took over Afghanistan after entering Kabul last year, leading to the collapse of the Ashraf Ghani-led government and mass evacuations.
A number of female students who remain out of school said the Islamic Emirate should keep its promise and reopen the schools in the new year.
MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said India was in the process of procuring wheat to be transported to Afghanistan.
The PM pointed out that India has close relations with all the Central Asian countries at the bilateral level.
