Current Affairs

Taliban fighters on Sunday 15 August 2021 took over the Afghan capital and President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad, leaving the government in collapse, as a U.S.-led military operation began to airlift Western diplomats, civilians, and Afghans likely to be targeted by the country’s new rulers.

A nineteen-year-old Pakistani climber, Shehroze Kashif, on July 27 became the youngest mountaineer to summit K2, the world’s second-highest peak. He also summited Mount Everest as part of the SST Expedition May 2021.