The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan's only luxury hotel, more than a decade after launching a deadly assault on it.

Pressure is mounting on the ICC to act amid the announcement of fundraising efforts to support Afghanistan's exiled women's cricketers, who played their first match together this week. The Pitch Our Future campaign,

Afghanistan's exiled women cricketers will be the first beneficiaries of a new refugee fund started by the Marylebone Cricket Club, the MCC said on Friday. Hundreds of athletes fled Afghanistan after the Taliban reclaimed power in 2021 and effected sweeping restrictions on women in the country.

Afghanistan's women cricketers will be the first beneficiaries of a new global refugee fund announced on Friday by the London-based Marylebone Cricket Club. Afghanistan's women cricketers get MCC help Hundreds of female athletes fled Afghanistan as the Taliban took over in August 2021,