by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Dec 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: US President Joe Biden’s troubleshooter for Afghanistan on Friday held a series of meetings with Pakistan’s senior military and Foreign Office officials to discuss the current situation in the neighbouring country, particularly the renewed threat posed by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Tom West, the US special representative for Afghanistan, is in Islamabad as part of his regional tour that would also take him to…
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By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, November 15th, 2023QUETTA: At least two dozen prominent politicians from Balochistan joined the PML-N on Tuesday after a meeting in Quetta with its supreme leader Nawaz Sharif, who arrived in the provincial capital on a two-day visit to woo ‘electables’ in the lead-up to the Feb 8 elections. The former prime minister, who returned from London in October following four years in self-imposed exile, also met the leadership of several…
By Fatema Adeeb in Tolo News, Sepy 09, 2023 at 9:58 PMTwo months after coming back to Kabul from Kandahar, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister of the Islamic Emirate, has not been reported to have visited with officials of foreign countries or participated in significant meetings. The Islamic Emirate’s Prime Minister left Kandahar on July 17, 2023, and returned to Kabul after two months of rest and medical treatment. The Islamic Emirate’s spokesman,…
By Gagani Weerakoon in Ceylon Today, Sept 2, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe, upon concluding his brief visit to the Eastern Province, had set aside Sunday to exclusively study Cabinet papers. Though he had a few private meetings, he had ensured that official commitments would not be a part of his agenda, in order to inspect the Cabinet papers and circulars. On Monday morning the weekly Cabinet meeting took place and one of the main topics doing…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 5, 2023Discussions are ongoing for holding a series of meetings between the governments of Bangladesh and the United States by September. If everything goes well, Richard Nephew, coordinator of the State Department’s Global Anti-Corruption Division, will visit Dhaka next week, reports Bangla Tribune. As part of the regular meetings between the two countries, there is a possibility of military-to-military dialogue and a Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) meeting…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, May 22, 2023 at 8:47 PMThe acting Minister of Interior, Sirajuddin Haqqani, met with the UN special envoy for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, and he requested that representatives of the Islamic Emirate be invited to UN meetings held on Afghanistan. According to the MoI, Otunbayeva welcomed the improvement in security, saying that the UN will continue its aid for the people of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the chief of staff for the office…
report in ToloNews, Apr 15, 2023 at 8:29 PMKazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Integration, Serik Zhumangarin, who leads a delegation, held meetings with officials in Kabul on Saturday with the aim of improving economic ties with Afghanistan. Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce Nooruddin Azizi in a meeting with the delegation discussed investment, strengthening of transportation infrastructure and expanding trade volume between the two countries to $3 billion, the Ministry of…
by Samsur Rahman in Prothom Alo, Mar 27, 2023Although the BNP and seven-party led alliance Ganatantra Mancha have held several meetings, they couldn’t finalise the ‘joint declaration’ as a basis of simultaneous movement. However, the Ganatantra Mancha has provided a draft declaration. But the matter remains hanging for a decision by the BNP. BNP is taking time to give their opinion as they would discuss the matter at the top level. All anti-government parties including…
Reuters in Prothom Alo, Feb 221, 2023With a little over a month to go for peak shopping season during Ramadan, the head of Pakistan’s retail industry body is shuttling between meetings, pressing officials to relax orders that forced malls to shut by 8.30 p.m. to save energy. More than 40 per cent of annual retail sales occur in the 30 days of the holy month, and malls are packed between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.,…
report in ToloNews, Dec 10, 2022 at- 8:18 PMIn a joint statement issued on Friday after meetings between the two countries’ leaders in Riyadh, China and Saudi Arabia emphasized the importance of preventing Afghanistan from becoming a haven for terrorists. According to the statement, Beijing and Riyadh are working to improve security and stability in Afghanistan and will help to provide humanitarian aid to this country. “Regarding Afghanistan, the two sides stressed the importance of…