"Afghanistan"

Cricket must challenge gender apartheid in Afghanistan | Letter
Letter: Mike Stein would like the ICC to have the moral and political courage to lead a multilateral boycott
15, Jan, 2025 @6:02 PM

England will not boycott Afghanistan game despite Taliban ‘gender apartheid’
ECB chair Richard Thompson condemned ‘oppression of women and girls’ in Afghanistan but insisted a ‘unilateral boycott’ was not the right policy
Ali Martin
06, Feb, 2025 @6:52 PM

Heather Knight lends voice to plight of Afghanistan women’s team
England captain calls for greater support for cricketers in exile while Alyssa Healy is passed fit to take gloves in Women’s Ashes opener
Raf Nicholson in Sydney
11, Jan, 2025 @5:09 AM

Lisa Nandy rejects calls for England to boycott Afghanistan cricket match
Culture secretary says it should go ahead despite pressure for it to be cancelled over Taliban’s treatment of women
Kiran Stacey Political correspondent
10, Jan, 2025 @9:56 AM

BBC lessons for girls in Afghanistan | Brief letters
Brief letters: World Service education | Storm names | Outdoor smoking | The Who v Oasis | Men’s hair
03, Sep, 2024 @3:16 PM

‘We are making history’: Afghanistan women’s cricket team offer hope for future
Pressure is building on the ICC as a team take to the field in Melbourne on Thursday to play under the Afghanistan banner
Raf Nicholson in Melbourne
29, Jan, 2025 @10:10 AM

Republican blocks promotion of general involved in Afghanistan withdrawal
Markwayne Mullin stalls promotion of Lt Gen Christopher Donahue, photographed as last US soldier to leave
Martin Pengelly in Washington
22, Nov, 2024 @10:36 PM

Cricket Australia boss backs players to express own views on facing Afghanistan
Nick Hockley supports men’s side taking a view before Champions Trophy while Afghanistan Women’s XI play Cricket Without Borders team
Jack Snape
27, Jan, 2025 @4:17 AM

Taliban minister ‘forced to flee Afghanistan’ after speech in support of girls’ education
Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girls
Tom Levitt and Zahra Joya
03, Feb, 2025 @3:16 PM

Peter Hain urges South Africa to protest Afghanistan game at Champions Trophy
The veteran anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain has called on Cricket South Africa to challenge the ban on women’s and girl’s cricket in Afghanistan before next month’s Champions Trophy
Sean Ingle
08, Jan, 2025 @11:13 AM

Jos Buttler says England boycott of Afghanistan fixture ‘not the way to go’
Jos Buttler believes England should play Afghanistan at next month’s Champions Trophy in Pakistan despite calls for a boycott
Taha Hashim
21, Jan, 2025 @11:23 AM

ECB urges cricket’s leaders to take action over ‘gender apartheid’ in Afghanistan
The ECB’s chief executive, Richard Gould, called on the International Cricket Council to ‘intervene and show global leadership’ over Afghanistan
Sean Ingle
10, Jan, 2025 @8:40 PM
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