China’s Foreign Ministry has warned the U.S. of “serious consequences” should U.S. House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan in a demonstration of developing ties between Washington and the autonomous island that Beijing sees as inalienable part of China’s territory.

A year after the US withdrawal from their homeland, around 1.5 million Afghan refugees still prefer to stay in Pakistan. Released on Monday, a UN report said Pakistan remained the largest refugee-hosting country in Asia and the Pacific. Last year, the number of refugees in the Asia-Pacific region rose by 138,400 to 4.2 million, or 19 per cent of the […]

A delegation of Pakistani religious scholars is in Kabul for talks with senior leaders of the interim Afghan government. Headed by Mufti Taqi Usman, the eight-member team will urge Kabul to help persuade Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders to further extend their ceasefire with Islamabad. Following their arrival in Kabul, the ulema were received by Taliban officials and Pakistan’s Ambassador to […]

The foreign minister of Uzbekistan on Tuesday called for the release of Afghanistan’s frozen foreign reserves. Unblocking the assets would spur the economic recovery process in Afghanistan, Vladimir Norov told an international conference in Tashkent. An independent Russian news agency quoted him as saying that freeing up the reserves would also help address acute social issues the Afghans were currently […]

U.S. and Taliban officials have exchanged proposals for the release of billions of dollars from Afghan central bank reserves held abroad into a trust fund, three sources familiar with the talks said, offering a hint of progress in efforts to ease Afghanistan’s economic crisis.

Ten months have passed since the Taliban takeover took place, and the situation in Afghanistan remains highly volatile and uncertain after the fall of the previous US-backed democratic government. Apart from core fundamental issues, the Taliban seems to be different in their approach to the Afghans and to the world community compared to their previous tenure in Afghanistan. Different regional […]

Assam CM Himanta Sarma plans to visit Bangladesh to strengthen ties. Off course, Assam CM’s upcoming Bangladesh visit can take the Indo-Bangla-Assam ties to new heights. There is no doubt regarding that. Basically, the visit is very necessary at this time. Bangladesh-India basically Northeast India will benefit from the visit. India’s Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma may visit Bangladesh […]

Speaking at the July 14 enlarged government session, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev made a few statements that seem to be paradoxical. According to him, the Mangystau province, on the one hand, is one of the three provinces with the highest salaries in Kazakhstan; on the other, the incomes of its people are lower than the national average. Well, let’s assume that […]

Thinktanks across Australia, tanked with cash from US sources and keen to think in furious agreement, are all showing how delighted they are with the AUKUS security pact and what potential it has for local, if subordinated industry. The United States Studies Centre, a loudspeaker for Washington’s opinions based at the University of Sydney, has added its bit to the […]

Residents in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat province complain of rising number of old and damaged banknotes, saying such banknotes are not accepted in their daily business activities. Herat Money Exchangers’ Union recently held a three-day strike for the same problem of refusal of old banknotes. “The problem prevails everywhere. When a government employee tries to pay his electricity bill […]