By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 4, 2023The Taliban administration in Afghanistan considers one of its achievements in the past two years to be a reduction in conflicts and the establishment of overall security. While this claim is not entirely unfounded when it comes to armed confrontations, the question remains whether the security of citizens is truly guaranteed with a decrease in hostilities between opposing groups. Are people now able to continue…
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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 Sukanta Halder in The Daily Star, Feb 26, 2023Wholesale and retail prices of palm oil in Dhaka have increased by Tk 8 to Tk 10 per litre in the last couple of days, which importers and traders say was caused by price rises in international markets and a reduction in supply. Though the government last December had fixed the rate of loose palm oil at Tk 117 per litre, retailers said they were charging…
by Charindra Chandrasena in The Morning, Jan 9, 2023The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not made an immediate reduction in the defence expenditure of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) a precondition for the provision of the eagerly awaited Board-level approval for the $ 2.9 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), according to President Ranil Wickremesinghe. “The IMF is looking for the reduction of military expenditure, but only in stages. The bulk of the military expenditure…