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A 6.1 magnitude earthquake caused massive destruction in Afghanistan.
Focus Points
- A powerful earthquake has killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in eastern Afghan, an official of the ruling Taliban told
- Taliban appealed for international help for the rescue effort
- Rescue efforts are likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghan after the Taliban takeover of the country last year and the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. military from the longest war in its history
- Neighbouring Pakistan’s meteorological department said the quake’s epicentre was in Paktika province, some 50km southwest of the city of Khost.
- European seismological agency, EMSC, said the earthquake’s tremors were felt over 500kms across Afghan, pakistan and India
- Mountainous Afghan and the larger region of South Asia along the Hindu Kush mountains has long been vulnerable to devastating earthquake
Afghanistan
- Capital – Kabul
- Borders of Afghanistan
- East and south – Pakistan (including those areas of Pak occupied Kashmir)
- West – Iran
- North – Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.
- Durand line separate Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Afghanistan is considered the gateway to Central Asia
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