By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, June 26, 2023The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that Afghanistan produced the majority of global illicit opium production in 2022, which makes 80%, despite the Taliban’s ban on opium cultivation in April last year. The report released a day before the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, said that the supply and trafficking of illegal drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamine, have increased…
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By Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, May 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The month of April this year witnessed a slight increase in the number of terror incidents, as there were 48 militant attacks, which resulted in 68 deaths and 55 injuries, said a report released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) on Monday. The previous month saw 39 militant attacks which led to 58 deaths and 73 injuries. There was a 23 per cent…
by Iftekhar Mahmud in Prothom Alo, May 2, 2023The people living in the capital city Dhaka were in extreme discomfort due to severe heatwave almost throughout the month of April. However, those living in the greener areas around the capital were living in a relatively cooler weather. A large section of residential and commercial areas in Dhaka has turned into a “heat island” which has created this difference in the land surface temperature between Dhaka…
report in The Morning, Apr 18, 2023Despite possessing enviable social indicators at the time of its’ Independence in 1948, Sri Lanka, at 75, is a “failed state”, former two-time President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga claimed on 16 April. “Seventy-five years is a long time for a nation to achieve considerable progress. Even after 450 years of destruction by colonial rulers, at Independence, Sri Lanka possessed some of the best socio economic indicators. Today, at 75, Sri…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, April 04, 2023 at 9:16 PMRussia has announced it will hold a conference on Afghanistan in Uzbekistan on April 13, and representatives of neighboring countries will attend. TASS reported that the Russian special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that the foreign ministers of the neighboring countries will attend. According to Kabulov, there is still no progress in creating a five-party G5 format for a settlement in Afghanistan with…
by Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Mar 8, 2023Following a meeting with Government Printer Gangani Liyanage, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandana D. Wickramaratne, and other relevant authorities, in which Secretary to the Treasury and Finance Ministry Mahinda Siriwardana was absent, the Election Commission (EC) has decided 25 April 2023, as the new date to conduct the Local Government poll, in keeping with the Supreme Court’s (SC) recent and related order. Speaking to The Daily…