By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press, April 20, 2023Zalmay Khalilzad, the Former US envoy for Afghanistan, informed in a series of tweets on Tuesday that he welcomes the decision by the UN Secretary-General to host a meeting in Doha of Special Envoys for Afghanistan. Khalilzad welcomed the meeting, which will be held in the first week of May and proposed four key measures. He recommended that the “full implementation of the Doha Agreement should…
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By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, April 19, 2023 at 7:38 PMUN Dep. Secretary-General Amina Mohammed speaking at an academic event in the US said the UN plans to arrange a conference with various envoys to discuss granting recognition to the Islamic Emirate. “And out of that, we hope that we’ll find those baby steps to put us back on the pathway to recognition [of the Taliban], a principled recognition,” Mohammed said. “Is it possible?…
report in Global Times, Apr 15, 2023Chinese experts and officials hit back at remarks from Western-backed lenders made during a meeting that China is a major creditor to emerging markets and should do more in helping debt relief. China is willing to implement the common framework for debt disposal with other countries, China’s central bank governor Yi Gang said during the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) spring meetings, according to a statement released…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, MAR 30, 2023Senior Nepali and Chinese officials have agreed to fully reopen the Kerung border point for two-way trade and movement of people from April 1. The decision was made on Wednesday during the first meeting of the Nepal-China Coordination Mechanism on Border Trade and Cooperation held in Lhasa on Wednesday. The meeting was co-chaired by Madhu Kumar Marasini, secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Chen…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 11, 2023Differences between the major two coalition partners—the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre)—resurfaced even at the meeting of the High-level Political Mechanism (HLPC) on Friday. At the heart of their disagreement is UML chair KP Sharma Oli’s insistence that he will not accept a consensus candidate for President. The long-awaited meeting of the political mechanism led by Oli, the chairman of the largest party in…
by Ali Asif Shawon in Dhaka Tribune, Feb 3, 2023Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina is likely to finalize the choice of the ruling party’s presidential candidate at the parliamentary party meeting of February 8. It is almost a given that the country’s 22nd president will be elected from within the ruling party, and s/he will be someone the premier can trust. Yet speculations centering on the nomination have been rife for the…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, Feb 1, 2023Mohammad Mousavi, Iran’s Deputy Minister of Trade on Tuesday in a meeting said that Tehran is planning to set up a trade center in Afghanistan in the coming future. The establishment of the trade center is aimed at strengthening trade relations between Tehran and Kabul, Mousavi stated to Mehr New Agency. While addressing to meeting Mousavi said that Tehran wanted to invest in Afghanistan and actively…
by Amin Ahmed in Dawn, February 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has received 340 recommendations from UN member states on its fourth periodic report on the human rights situation in the country, and the government will examine these recommendations and report back to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in its forthcoming meeting. A draft report prepared on Wednesday by the Working Group on Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, available with Dawn,…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 19, 2023The Pushpa Kamal Dahal government has reintroduced the diplomatic code of conduct that was unveiled in 2011.A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided to enforce the diplomatic code of conduct and make it mandatory for all ministers to follow while meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives of foreign governments, should invite the officials of the foreign ministry, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel. The…
By Fatima Adib in ToloNews, Dec 29, 2022 at 8:44 PMChargé d’Affaires of the Afghanistan Permanent Mission to the UN, Naseer Ahmad Faiq, said that a meeting would be held by the United Nations to discuss an intra-Afghan dialogue. He said the meeting will include representatives from all aspects of Afghanistan and that the planning of the meeting is underway. “Holding a national and international dialogue under the leadership of the UN in which actual…
by Umer Farooq | Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, December 16th, 2022PESHAWAR / LAKKI MARWAT: Traders affiliated with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf have requested party chairman Imran Khan for a meeting over an “alarming” law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “I would like to bring to your kind attention that extortion and kidnapping have started again in KP, especially in Peshawar,” the Insaf Traders’ Wing (ITW) said in a letter dated Dec 12. The letter,…