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Islamic Emirate Denies Washington Post’s Report on Daesh in Afghanistan

By Fatima Adib in ToloNew, Apr 23, 2023 at 9:08 PMThe Islamic Emirate denied the report of The Washington Post saying that Afghanistan has become a significant coordination site for a Daesh group that plans attacks across Europe and Asia, and conducts “aspirational plotting” against the United States. The Washington Post cited a “classified Pentagon assessment that portrays the threat as a growing security concern.” “The attack planning, detailed in US intelligence findings leaked on…

Chinese experts blame geopolitics for PM’s reluctance to attend Boao Forum

by Purushottam Poudel in the Kathmandu Post, Mar 18, 2023The Chinese scholars interested in Nepal’s affairs have attributed Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s reluctance to take part in the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) to geopolitical factors. Speaking at the ‘Interaction with the Chinese Scholars’ organised by the Nepali Embassy in Beijing, Zhang Shubin, director of the Nepal Studies Centre at Hebei, said, “We know that even though China had extended an official invitation,…