by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 20th, 2023QUETTA: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Tuesday ruled out withdrawing the newly implemented “one-document regime”, which requires all Afghan citizens to enter Pakistan with a valid passport and visa, similar to travellers from other countries. “There’s no question of retracting the one-document system for border crossing,” the premier said at a press conference during his visit to Quetta, stressing that the policy aimed to formalise border…
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By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 1, 2023Representatives from eight countries and the European Union have expressed their “concern” over the human rights situation in Afghanistan in a joint statement, calling for the lifting of restrictions, including women’s education and employment bans. On Tuesday, the representatives and special envoys from Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued a joint statement after concluding…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Oct 26, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not show any flexibility in its decision to deport all foreigners living in the country illegally despite pressure being exerted by certain countries to review the move. “We are sticking to our decision. There will not be any flexibility. All foreigners living in the country illegally will have to adhere to the October 31 deadline,” a senior government official while requesting anonymity told…
By Mitra Majeedy in ToloNews, Aug 22, 2023 at 9:01 PMAmir Khan Muttaqi, acting minister of the Foreign Ministry, said in an annual report of the ministry that the Islamic Emirate does not want Afghanistan to be a field of negative competition between the countries of the world and wants good economic and political relations with the world. Amir Khan Muttaqi added that by implementing a balanced foreign policy, the Islamic Emirate was able to…
report in TOLOnews, July 17, 2023 at 9:55 PMActing Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that the negative engagement of some countries and organizations has been directed toward more positive engagement. Speaking at a gathering inside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Muttaqi said that the world failed to implement its goals through pressure during the past 20 years and also with the Islamic Emirate within the past two years. “The negative engagement which some…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, June 17, 2023The US Department of State on Thursday published its annual report on the situation of human trafficking around the world, in which Afghanistan is among the worst countries in human trafficking. According to the newly published report, millions of people are exploited every year by human trafficking groups. In the 2023 report of the US Department of State, Afghanistan and ten other countries are among the…
By Nazir Shinwari in TOLOnews, April 10, 2023 at 9:27 PMAfghanistan ranked fourth among countries with the highest crimes rates in 2023 according to the World Population Review website. The report said that crime is present in various forms, including corruption, assassinations/contract killings, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and money laundering. “Afghanistan supplied 85% of the world’s illicit opium in 2020. The Taliban, which regained control of the country in 2021, has pledged to stamp out the…
CPD: Bangladesh has the highest price for beef, rice and sugar in the developing and developed world
report in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 28, 2023Rice, sugar, soybean oil and beef are more expensive in Bangladesh than in other developing or developed countries, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). The think tank also found that at least 28 imported basic food items presently suffer a high incidence of tax. Whilst inflationary pressures had been growing in Bangladesh prior to the Russia-Ukraine war, the international crisis provided an excuse, where commodity prices that…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, March 25,2023 at 7:49 PMThe Islamic Emirate spokesperson said that “some countries that failed in Afghanistan” over the past 20 years are preventing the current Afghan government from interacting with the international community. The Islamic Emirate spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a number of countries are still eager to interact with the current Afghan government. “The countries that failed in Afghanistan, and the countries that shamefully left, they did not…
report in The Morning, Feb 22, 2023*Claims opportunity to do business with foreign countries may also disappear**Says current tax policy is no normal tax policy but a rescue operationThe current tax policy in Sri Lanka is not a normal tax policy but a rescue operation, and any disruption to this process will result in Sri Lanka not being able to secure the International Monetary Fund (IMF) funding, which may also result in the opportunity to…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 6, 2023Nepal and China are scheduled to hold another round of discussions later this month on the development of a cross-border transmission line between the two countries. A Joint Technical Group comprising representatives of the Nepal Electricity Authority and the State Grid Corporation of China had previously held two rounds of talks in China and Nepal, respectively, on the issue before the Covid-19 pandemic. Another meeting…