By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, July 3, 2023The United Nations in Afghanistan on Monday released its Strategic Framework for Afghanistan for the period 2023-2025, outlining the UN’s approach to addressing basic human needs in the country. The UN’s new strategic Framework prioritizes the needs and rights of those most vulnerable, including women and girls, children and youth, internally displaced persons, returnees, refugees, and ethnic and religious minorities, the statement said. “Our Strategic Framework…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 27, 2023The Janata Samajbadi Party is set to adopt a policy of lobbying for the directly elected presidential system in the country. The Madhesh-based party has also set its goal to fight for establishing a Parliament with fully proportional representation. Presenting a draft statute of the party on Sunday, JSP chair Upendra Yadav proposed the aforementioned form of governance for deliberations among party delegates during its statute convention that…
by Ahmadul Hassan in Prothom Alo, Jun 26, 2023The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) has identified 146 unprotected border points through which drugs are being smuggled into the country. Dangerous drugs, ice and yaba are being smuggled into the country from Myanmar through 66 land and river points while other traditional and non-traditional drugs, including heroin and phensedyl, are entering from India through other porous border points. These points are in 19 border districts. The…
By Dilanthi Jayamanne in Ceylon Today, June 22, 2023With 4,000 consultant specialists being required by 2025 and only around 2,050 specialist doctors in place by 2023, the country would face a more serious situation in the near future, due to the retirement of a total 250 specialist doctors by 31 December 2023, in accordance with a Government Gazette, warned the health services. Countering a news report, published in the Ceylon Today on 13 June 2023,…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, March 20, 2023Afghanistan has asked the UN for assistance and requested wheat storage facilities in response to growing concerns about the country’s drought. The Chamber of agriculture and livestock has called on the UN to help the country amidst concerns over possible droughts. “The international community and other countries need to support Afghanistan under the current situation. The government also has to make wheat storage facilities so…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, June 19, 2023A UN expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls may amount to gender apartheid, given how severely the de facto authorities of the country continue to violate their rights. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed similar concerns on the opening day of the Council’s summer session, adding that the de facto authorities had “dismantled the most…
by Ajith Siriwardana in Daily Mirror online June 14, 2023 at 01:45 pm –A Parliamentary Committee has revealed that the congestion in prisons has increased up to 259 percent, where 26,791 inmates are occupying the prisons at present whereas all the prisons in the country could accommodate only 11,762 inmates. It was revealed at the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) which met at the Parliament Complex recently that in some prisons, the congestion has gone…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in ToloNews, June 14, 2023 at 9:40 PMThe acting Minister of Defense Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said that demands against Islamic laws will never be accepted in the country. In a special interview with TOLOnews, Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said the current Afghan government would never accept some of the demands made by the international community because they are in opposition to Islamic Sharia and Afghan culture. According to Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid,…
report in TOLOnews, June 11, 2023 at 12:38 PMYouth in Kabul told TOLOnews that at as the unemployment level in the country rises, young people must inevitably take the path of illegal immigration. Young people said it has become more difficult to cover the costs of living in the current situation and therefore they have to go to neighboring countries or farther away. Abubaker is a resident of Laghman and head of a 9-member family…
by Sangam Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, June 10, 2023Around 500,000 Nepalis are already leaving the country to enter the international labour market every year. What would happen if this stream turned into a flood of 1 million departures and the country became short-handed? That is a distinct possibility considering that more than 660,000 persons had received labour permits as of the first 10 months of the fiscal year, and that figure does not include…