Archive for October 19th, 2023

IEA delegation to travel to China for Belt and Road meeting

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry says an Islamic Emirate delegation, headed by the acting minister, traveled to China on Monday to take part in the third meeting of the One Belt One Road initiative. Abdulsalam Javad Akhundzadah, the ministry’s spokesman, said the minister, Nuruddin Azizi, will attend the meeting and hold talks with Chinese officials and business owners in […]

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Republicans and Democrats agree U.S. war in Afghanistan wasn’t worth fighting: poll

At a time when Americans are deeply divided along party lines, a new poll shows considerable agreement on at least one issue that is the United States’ two-decade-long war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The poll from the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Associated Press-NORC Center […]

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UN Special Rapporteurs urge Pakistan to stop planned mass deportation of Afghans

Pakistan should immediately cancel plans to deport 1.4 million Afghan nationals back to their country, UN experts said on Tuesday. The government of Pakistan, which has hosted millions of Afghans for decades, recently announced that all “undocumented” foreign nationals must leave the country by 1 November or face deportation to their countries of origin. The UN said these plans would […]

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