By Fatima Adib in TOLOnews, May 17, 2023 at 10:19 PMQatar’s Foreign Ministry said that it has been trying to create a political path between Afghanistan and the international community. Speaking to reporters, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, Majed bin Mohammad Al Ansari, said that Doha played an important role as mediator, particularly at the end of the US involvement in Afghanistan. Referring to the recent visit of Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister,…
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By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 17, 2023China has been actively managing Afghanistan’s foreign relations as a guarantee to help Afghanistan escape its current state of isolation on the world stage. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari of Pakistan and Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Foreign Minister of Taliban, last week in Islamabad to hold talks as part of a China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Minister’s Dialogue. Afghanistan’s stability…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 15, 2023Human Rights Watch said on Monday that Afghanistan remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. The organization said in a statement that two-thirds of the country’s population is food insecure, including 875,000 children facing acute malnutrition and women and girls remain most at risk. The statement also added that the United Nations is fighting with two fronts at a time, “keeping aid flowing to…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, May 2, 2023Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC), on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, has reported on the deteriorating situation of media in Afghanistan – adding violence cases against journalists have increased by 64 percent in the past year. The organization on Tuesday, May 2, which marks International Press Freedom Day, published a report highlighting the situation of media in Afghanistan and warned of the continued threats…
by Frank Tang in SCMP, Apr 15, 2023China’s falling producer prices and slowing consumer price rises have triggered warnings about the risk of deflation and inadequate demand, the latest red alerts for the world’s second-largest economy at a critical juncture in its post-pandemic recovery. The low-price environment puts Beijing’s policymakers in a much better position than their Western peers, who are busy dealing with high inflation and financial market turbulence, and allowed them to extend…
CPD: Bangladesh has the highest price for beef, rice and sugar in the developing and developed world
report in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 28, 2023Rice, sugar, soybean oil and beef are more expensive in Bangladesh than in other developing or developed countries, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). The think tank also found that at least 28 imported basic food items presently suffer a high incidence of tax. Whilst inflationary pressures had been growing in Bangladesh prior to the Russia-Ukraine war, the international crisis provided an excuse, where commodity prices that…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press Online, March 16, 2023The Afghanistan situation was discussed in the fifth edition of the Global Security Forum on Wednesday in Qatar. The session on Afghanistan was held on the last day of the forum, where the panellists included Afghan officials and activists from the ousted government of Afghanistan. The Panel reflected on the development in Afghanistan and its prospects, including security, human rights, women’s rights, education and governance. One…
report in TOLOnews, Feb 13, 2023 at 9:22 PMOn World Radio Day, the Ministry of Information and Culture reported that 200 radio stations are now operating across the country. According to this ministry, 44 radio stations have stopped operating due to economic problems in the past 18 months. “There are now more than 200 operating radio stations in Afghanistan. After the Islamic Emirate came to power, 44 radio stations ceased operations,” said Abdulhaq Hemad, director…
report in The Daily Star, Feb 13, 2023Bangladeshis are paying 6.9x more for internet than the rest of the world. Global VPN provider Surf Shark recently released a report titled the Global Internet Value Index (IVi), which is a list that ranks countries based on how much its people are overpaying for internet access. Globally Bangladesh ranks 83rd, and regionally, ranks 3rd in the list. The index examines whether people are getting what they’re paying…
by Imran Danish in TOLOnews, Jan 18, 2023 at 8:41 PMPakistan’s foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said that a stable and peaceful Afghanistan will benefit both the region and the world. In an interview with Aljazeera, Zardari said that terrorism had a serious effect on both Pakistanis and Afghans and that Islamabad and Kabul are working together to fight terrorism in the region. “We have serious concerns with the issue of terrorism, and let’s be…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Jan 17, 2023Chinese International Department Vice Minister Chen Zhou yesterday told political party leaders that China is ready to work with any party and that the developing world can benefit greatly from collaboration with Beijing. Zhou made this statement, briefing political party representatives, and journalists, on the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He said that Sri Lanka and China have a long standing relationship and China…