AFP report October 19, 2023PARIS: French-Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, held in detention since January in Afghanistan, was freed after charges against him were dropped, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday. “The Taliban judiciary have ordered the release of journalist Mortaza Behboudi. The decision has just come through after 284 days of imprisonment,” RSF said in a statement to AFP. All charges, including espionage and illegal support for foreigners, were thrown out at a criminal…
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Reuters report, October 15, 2023KARACHI/LAHORE: Salma Faheem has not spoken to her husband, Mohammad, since June, when he dropped her and their three children off in his home village of Dalma in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) because he could no longer afford to have them living with him in Karachi. Now instead of living in one room in an urban slum with water on tap and a gas-powered cooker, Salma has to walk an hour every…
by Ahsan Habib in The Daily Star, Jun 9, 2023Corporate and foreign investors may further lose interest in the stock market of Bangladesh as the country has dropped a notch in the Moody’s Investors Service rating system. As the domestic stock market already lacks investment from corporate and foreign investors, this downgrade will further add to its woes, according to market analysts. Whenever a country slips in Moody’s rating system, then the stock market of…
by Rejaul Karim Byron , Mohiuddin Alamgir in The Daily Star, Apr 13, 2023The poverty rate in Bangladesh has dropped significantly but income inequality is at an all-time high, according to the latest version of the Household Income and Expenditure survey — in a puzzling development that raises questions about the nature of economic growth seen in recent times. “If we take the HIES 2022 data highlights at their face value, there is both good…
By Hadia Ziaei in TOLOnews, April 11, 2023 at 11:16 PMThe shopkeepers in Kocha-e-Anteek Foroshi in Kabul– where unique materials are being sold—have expressed concerns over a drop in their business. They said that the number of their clients has been significantly reduced over the past two-years. TOLOnews interviewed several shopkeepers of Kocha Anteek Foroshi, which is located Shahar-e-Naw of Kabul. Abdul Matin, 50, has been working at this market for the past 18 years.…