Shapoor Zadran, former bowler for Afghanistan’s national cricket team and one of the pioneering figures of the sport’s golden generation, died on Tuesday (7 July) in New Delhi, India, at the age of 38. He died one day before his 39th birthday after a long battle with a rare immune system disease, HLH.

The Women’s Movement Network, in response to the announcement of the 1405 Kankor results, has said that announcing the results of this exam without the presence of even one girl is a sign of the “burial of justice, equality and Afghanistan’s future”.

The Afghanistan Media Support Organisation, AMSO, has announced that Jawid Niazi, head of Paygard News Agency, has been released from a Taliban prison after nearly two months in detention.

A number of teachers at religious schools, mosque instructors and Shia families in Herat province say the Taliban have banned the teaching of several religious books belonging to the Shia denomination.