By Fatema Aeeb in TOLOnews Online, Oct 27, 2023 at 8:10 PMThe release of the educational activists and founder of PenPath, Matiullah Wesa, was welcomed by high profile Afghans as well as international officials. US special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, on X reacted to Wesa’s release who, she said, “should never have been detained for standing up for the rights of Afghan girls to an education.” Amiri called for the “immediate release of…
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By Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, October 26th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday extended the deadline for voters’ registration till Oct 28 and invited international observers to monitor the upcoming general elections. In a letter sent to the secretaries of interior and foreign affairs ministries, the ECP stated, “We would take this opportunity to welcome international observers to observe the polling process neutrally, impartially with their very well-articulated feedback and reports.”…
report in Times of India online, Oct 16, 2023 at 10.49 PM ISTNEW DELHI: Nepal’s very expensive Pokhara international airport is shaping up to be an economic albatross for the cash-strapped nation and has saddled it with debt to creditors in Beijing for years to come. The fate of the airport strongly parallels that of Gwadar Port in Pakistan which was built under China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI). The multi-billion dollar port has failed…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 14, 2023Mentioning various measures of the government to address macroeconomic challenges, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has observed that Bangladesh economy is on the right track. “I think the economy is on the right track in terms of meeting the objective of the program, getting inflation under control and addressing macroeconomic challenges given the difficult global environment,” IMF Director for the Asia and Pacific Department (APD) Krishna Srinivasan said on…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 13, 2023Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha will represent Nepal in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) to be held in Beijing on October 17 and 18. Although invitations to the event were sent to the government of Nepal and other line ministers like Energy Minister Shakti Basnet and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala, Prime…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 12, 2023A parliamentary committee has endorsed an anti-money laundering bill, in a baby step to amending the existing legislations to make them compatible with international standards. The Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday endorsed the Amendments to Some Laws relating to the Anti Money Laundering and Business Promotion Bill with a few changes. The development comes at a critical…
By Naweed Samadi in TOLOnews Online, Oct 09, 2023 at 2:13 PM22 years ago, an international coalition led by Washington on October 7, 2001, attacked Afghanistan. America stated that the aim of the attack was to fight and overthrow the organizers of the 9/11 attacks on their country. On September 11, 2001, nearly a month before the United States invasion of Afghanistan, the Al Qaeda network crashed hijacked passenger planes into the World Trade Center…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 6, 2023United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is arriving in Kathmandu on October 13 on a four-day official visit, will be flying to Beijing on October 16 to participate in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). China has also invited the Nepal government to the BRF event, but Kathmandu has yet to decide who will participate in the event. China is hosting…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 7, 2023A six-member US pre-election assessment mission will arrive in Dhaka today on a six-day visit to determine whether to send a limited international election observation mission for the upcoming general election in Bangladesh. During its stay in Dhaka, the US delegation will meet with election stakeholders, including the Election Commission, government officials, political party leaders, and civil society organisations, according to a statement of the International Republican Institute…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 6, 2023United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is arriving in Kathmandu on October 13 on a four-day official visit, will be flying to Beijing on October 16 to participate in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). China has also invited the Nepal government to the BRF event, but Kathmandu has yet to decide who will participate in the event. China is hosting…
report in Dawn, October 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday doubled down on its policy to evict all illegal immigrants — including around 1.7 million Afghan refugees — from the country, saying that the decision was in line with international practices. Meanwhile, as law enforcement agencies continued their crackdown on people they call ‘illegal aliens’, a sizeable number of families have been crossing the border into Afghanistan over the past week. “No country allows illegal…