Asghar Stanikzai was asked about "nerves" as he arrived for his first official press conference as Test captain. "I'm hearing this for the first time," he shot back, setting the tone for the next 15 ...

He was once a 20-year-old lad, training at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in the hilly city of Dehradun. He was not very religious and enjoyed weekend hikes and riverside trips. Sher Mohammad Abbas ...

(MENAFN- Khaama Press) Following reports of Abbas Stanikzai leaving Afghanistan before being arrested on orders from Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, Stanikzai has stated that he has no ...

Kenilworth Cricket Club players welcomed Abdul with open arms. But they could never have known the horrors he had witnessed and investigated in war-torn Afghanistan. “I am from a village in ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...

HARARE: Skipper Asghar Stanikzai put a bout of appendicitis behind him to guide Afghanistan to a five-wicket victory over Ireland on Friday to qualify for next year´s Cricket World Cup. Afghanistan, ...

Asghar Stanikzai began cautiously and then exploded in what was a well-paced ODI innings • AFP Against Bangladesh, Asghar Stanikzai and Samiullah Shenwari played the sort of innings that reminds you ...

The Taliban representative who met Ambassador Deepak Mittal, India's envoy in Qatar, on Tuesday in Doha, trained under the Indian Army at its elite institutions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One ...

CRICKET: IRELAND'S AUDACIOUS attempt to win their four-day Intercontinental Cup clash against Afghanistan in just five sessions fell short in Rathmines yesterday as a defiant half-century from Asghar ...

Asghar Stanikzai, the Afghanistan captain, has welcomed the call from a trio of former international captains, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Michael Vaughan, for greater opportunities to be given ...

Afghanistan have reached their greatest triumph in only their fourth game against a Full Member nation, something which they believe is in itself a massive achievement. So much so, that the country's ...