By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 20, 2023Despite the sanctions imposed on the Taliban’s authorities, which restrict their foreign travels, some members of the group have recently undertaken foreign trips, resulting in reactions. Abdulbari Omar, the head of the Food and Drug Administration of the Taliban, recently embarked on a European journey that controversies have accompanied. Reports suggest that this official from the Taliban administration is currently travelling in European countries, with…
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By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Nov 1, 2023Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, PC, yesterday (31) alleged that the country had been deprived of foreign exchange to the tune of billions of USD over the past three decades due to the failure on the part of the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA) to establish a system to sell hydrographic maps for ships entering Sri Lankan waters. Addressing the media at his office…
Report in Dawn, Sept 21st, 2023LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti on Wednesday told Inspector General of Police (IGP) Usman Anwar that he had started losing his patience with the failure of the police to recover alleged missing anchorperson Imran Riaz. “Five months have passed and you have now begun to try my patience,” the chief justice said to the IGP during the hearing of a petition seeking recovery of the alleged…
By Naweed Samadi in ToloNews, Aug 20, 2023 at 8:29 PMThe Deputy Defense Minister, Mohammad Qassim Farsad, said that the neighboring countries of Afghanistan are not returning aircrafts that were taken there during the collapse of the former government. He said their failure to do so is due to pressure by the US. Speaking at a press conference reporting on the annual activities of the Defense Ministry, he said that the number of these aircraft…
AFP report, 07 Apr 2023The White House on Thursday released a long-awaited review of the traumatic US exit from Afghanistan, admitting there had been a massive intelligence failure in not predicting rapid Taliban victory, but defending overall US conduct. “Clearly we didn’t get things right” on intelligence, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters after the still classified report was sent to Congress. But “ending a war, any war, is not an easy endeavor,…
EDIT IN THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MAR 11, 2023The UN’s top official for Afghanistan is warning that the Taliban’s continuing failure to keep their promises regarding the rights of women and girls are likely to lead to reductions in aid delivered to the country. Roza Otunbayeva, special representative of the UN secretary general for Afghanistan and head of the UN’s assistance mission in the country, has noted that the Taliban continue to impose increasingly harsh conditions…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 13, 2022.Nepali politicians often accuse foreign powers of meddling in the country’s internal affairs, but they seldom bother to furnish substantive evidence to back their allegations. This buttresses the public perception that such provocative statements are made just to divert public attention to cover up their own failures. CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Sunday accused foreign powers of meddling in federal and provincial elections…