By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, April 02,2023The writer is a political reporter for The Kathmandu Post, covering the governance-related issues including corruption and irregularities in the government machinery.Nepal wants to sign a long-term intergovernmental agreement with India on selling Nepal’s excess power to the southern neighbour during the upcoming India visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Nepali officials said that Prime Minister Dahal could visit India after the second week of…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post ONLINE, March 26, 2023Senior officials from Nepal and China are meeting this week in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, aiming to facilitate bilateral trade and commerce. This is the first meeting of the joint mechanism set up in August last year during the official visit of then foreign minister Narayan Khadka to Qingdao, China. A statement issued after the visit had said the two foreign ministers decided…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Mar 5, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban are discussing a resettlement plan for the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in a renewed push to address the issue of cross-border terrorist attacks that have threatened to unravel their bilateral relationship. Sources familiar with the development told The Express Tribune that the idea of resettlement came from the Afghan Taliban during the recent visit of a high-powered Pakistani delegation led…
by Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, Febr 26th, 2023KHYBER: Over 800 goods vehicles crossed over to Afghanistan on Saturday as the bilateral trade resumed after six days hiatus due to the abrupt closure of the Torkham border by Afghan authorities late on Sunday. Customs officials told Dawn that as many as 500 vehicles loaded with transit goods and 380 vehicles of Pakistani export items were already cleared by them prior to the closure of the border…
By Kelum Bandara in The Daily Mirror, Feb 6, 2023 kThe government has sought a telephone conversation between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss debt restructuring and the future of bilateral relations, an informed source said . China , India and Japan are the largest bilateral creditors to Sri Lanka . Their assurances are key to unlock the US $ 2.9 billion programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). China has…