Some 1,300 Afghans are in limbo at an American camp in Qatar, unable to continue to the U.S. but in danger if they go back home.

According to Afghan and Pakistani sources, both sides had earlier agreed to a ceasefire on October 19 in Doha but failed to make progress in Istanbul.

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country once more in an international soccer tournament.

Tajik intel chief Saimumin Yatimov wrote on X that he had advised General Munir to “choose the path of peace with Afghanistan".

The tenuous peace between Pakistan and Afghanistan appears to have ended after days of escalating conflict that came to a head as Afghanistan accused its neighbor of carrying out airstrikes on its territory on Friday.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to a new immediate ceasefire during talks in Doha, Qatar’s foreign ministry said early Sunday, following more than a week of deadly clashes which continued despite an earlier truce.

United States President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly sought credit for resolving global conflicts, also waded in, saying he would “solve the Afghanistan-Pakistan crisis very quickly”, while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) summit in Malaysia earlier in the week.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan finished as runners-up in the Central Asia Volleyball Championship after a narrow 3–2 defeat to Turkmenistan in the final. The tournament, featuring teams from six countries — Afghanistan, the Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Turkmenistan — began on October 22 in Bangladesh.