By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, October 20, 2023The acting minister of Industry and Commerce of the Taliban said that Afghanistan’s caretaker administration intends to join China’s “Belt and Road” initiative officially. On Thursday, Nooruddin Azizi, the head of this ministry, said in an interview with Reuters that the Taliban administration wishes to formally become a part of the ambitious infrastructure project “Belt and Road” initiated by Xi Jinping, the President of China.…
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Reuters report, Oct 14, 2023 at 05.37 PM ISTKABUL: The Taliban will attend China’s Belt and Road Forum next week, a spokesman said on Saturday, underscoring Beijing’s growing official ties with the administration, despite its lack of formal recognition by any government. Taliban officials and ministers have at times travelled to regional meetings, mostly those focussed on Afghanistan, but the Belt and Road Forum is among the highest-profile multilateral summits it has been invited to…
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…
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 Kathmandu Post, Oct 1, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal returned home on Saturday after his two-week-long visit to China and New York. Talking to the media upon arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport, Dahal made no mention of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flagship project, that was tipped to be taken forward as a Nepal-China after negotiations in Beijing. Both the 40-point press note issued in Kathmandu and…
By Habib Rahman Qooyash in ToloNews, Sept 22, 2023 at 8:52 PMDrivers and passengers voiced their frustration over the continued blockage of Kabul-Jalalabad highway, and called on the interim government officials to reopen the highway as soon as possible. The Kabul-Jalalabad highway was blocked on Sunday after major rockslides blocked the highway in the Pul-e-Charkhi area of Kabul. The Ministry of Defense earlier announced on social media that the engineering teams of the ministry have…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 14, 2023Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, Swechchasebak Dal, and Chhatra Dal – associate bodies of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) – have jointly announced a road march program on September 16 and 17. The protest aims to realize a one-point demand –removal of the current government and appointment of an election-time government, said Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal President Sultan Salahuddin Tuku during a press conference held at the BNP central office in Nayapaltan on…
Report in Pakistan Today, May 19, 2023PESHAWAR: At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in a blast at a motorcycle workshop near the Ring Road here on Thursday, according to police. Peshawar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harood Rashid confirmed the injuries and fatalities. He said the explosion occurred in the jurisdiction of the Peshatakara police station. According to the official, the injured persons had been moved to the Hayatabad Medical…
by Hariram Upreti in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 2, 2023The road upgrade work of the 13km stretch from Barpak to Gupsipakha in Laprak is left in a limbo. The work remains incomplete due to the negligence of contractors, according to the Infrastructure Development Office. In May 2020, the office struck a deal with the construction company Sharma/Bikash JV, which agreed to complete the work within two years. After the company failed to abide by the…
by Bhawani Bhatta in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 21, 2023The track opening of the 11 km Kanchanpur-Mal road section in Kanchanpur is yet to take off two years after the project’s contract was signed. Failure to clear trees from the project site has thrown the project in limbo. When the contract was signed, the deadline set for the project—which falls under the Mahakali Corridor, a mega infrastructural and development project—was the end of this fiscal…