KABUL, Afghanistan (MNTV) — Once home to thriving fig orchards, Kandahar’s Shah Wali Kot district has become one of southern Afghanistan’s starkest examples of climate-driven collapse, with years of drought leaving families without even basic drinking water, The Afghan Times reports. The orchards that once sustained livelihoods have disappeare...
KABUL, Afghanistan (MNTV) — Taliban authorities in western Afghanistan have detained four young men in Herat after they were seen wearing outfits inspired by the British TV series Peaky Blinders, accusing them of promoting “foreign culture,” officials said. The arrests occurred in Jebrael township, said Saif-ul-Islam Khyber, spokesperson for t...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MNTV) — Pakistan plans to introduce its first national “stablecoin” as part of a broader push to bring virtual assets into the formal financial system, the head of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) announced. Speaking at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai, PVARA Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib said the countr...
KABUL, Afghanistan (MNTV) — The Qatari charity Al-Gharafa Foundation has completed 108 homes for vulnerable families in western Afghanistan’s Farah province, with two mosques and a hospital expected to be finished soon, Pajhwok Afghan News reported. The update came during a meeting between senior Al-Gharafa officials and Economy Minister Qari ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MNTV) — Guinness World Records has officially recognized Mohammad Shahzeb Awan, the 29-year-old chancellor of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), as the world’s youngest male university chancellor, drawing global attention to Pakistan’s emerging generation of academic leaders. Awan heads the NIT, a federally charte...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MNTV) — Pakistan offered landlocked Kyrgyzstan access to its Arabian Sea ports as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hosted Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov in Islamabad on Thursday, marking the first visit by a Kyrgyz head of state in two decades. Sharif said Pakistan was prepared to provide Bishkek access to regional and globa...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (MNTV) — A resident of Shymkent has completed an 8,000-kilometer bicycle journey from Central Asia to Medina, documenting a 44-day pilgrimage across eight countries that captured wide attention on social media. Rolan Anatoly cycled through Kazakhstan, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, crossing ...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (MNTV) — A schoolgirl from Almaty has signed a cooperation memorandum with the Water Resources and Irrigation Ministry to test and potentially expand a device she created to harvest water from the atmosphere, the ministry said, according to Qazinform. Minister Nurzhan Nurzhigitov met with Dana Kadyrbek, a student at School N...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (MNTV) — Kyrgyzstan’s Constitutional Court has received a proposal from President Sadyr Japarov seeking to amend the Constitution to allow the death penalty for certain grave crimes, Azattyk reported. The draft amendment targets Part 1 of Article 25 of the Constitution and would permit capital punishment as an exceptional m...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (MNTV) — A youth-led hackathon aimed at generating innovative ideas for a safer, more modern urban environment has opened in Bishkek, organizers said. The UrbanTech Hackathon, hosted by the Tekaiym Public Foundation, will bring together students, young professionals, programmers, designers and civic activists for five days ...
