Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting minister of foreign affairs, held a telephone conversation with Thomas West, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan, and Rina Amiri, the US Special Representative for Afghan Women, on Saturday where they discussed issues around recent US developments regarding the financial sector, in particular the banking sector. According to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), they also […]

The West should change the way it looks at Afghanistan, acting defense minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid, said on Sunday. “Whether it is US or Europe or other countries, they should change the mindset they had for 20 years about Afghanistan. They should look at Afghanistan differently,” Mujahid said at a ceremony to mark […]

In 1991, the five Central Asian economies were republics of the Soviet Union, with trade and transport oriented towards Russia. Over three decades of independence, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have built railways, roads and pipelines to the east and south and diversified trade partners, distancing themselves from Russia. The war in Ukraine is accentuating these processes. […]

The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, started preaching and spreading the mantra of American conspiracy when Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) brought a vote of no-confidence against him in the parliament and succeeded in ousting Khan on April 10 2022. PDM is a political movement founded in September 2020 as a coalition of opposition parties against PM Imran Khan, […]

One of the most important aspect for any state to function in international system is health of its economy. Currently Pakistan is facing an unprecedented and deep economic crisis. The citizen’s well-being and Pakistan’s economic security is seriously threatened. However, no political party is paying much heed to the looming threats attached with this economic recession. The only contribution they […]

It has become a familiar sight in Indonesia’s flood-prone capital of Jakarta: People inching their way through waist-deep water to submerged homes. Islands of stranded trucks and cars. Entire neighborhoods underwater. Perennial flooding in Jakarta caused by climate change, heavy rainfall and ongoing groundwater extraction uproots lives and disrupts communities — most recently in December when the city’s rivers last […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in France recently as part of a three-nation visit to Europe that also included Denmark and Germany. Modi tweeted to say that even though his visit to Paris was short, it was “fruitful.” He also characterized France as “one of India’s strongest partners,” cooperating across a number of strategic sectors including nuclear, space, and […]

The small number of 25,000 Armenians continuing to live in Karabakh are too small in number to require an autonomous republic. Meanwhile, keeping 2,000 Russian peacekeeping forces in place is a bad policy option as their primary goal will be to keep tensions simmering between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Without these tensions there would be no use for Russia’s so-called peacekeepers. […]

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the world’s second-largest organization after the United Nations with a membership of 57 states spread over four continents. OIC’s mandate is to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting global peace and harmony among various people of the world. By keeping in view its objective on […]

One of the major causes of the Ukraine-Russia war is also ‘Water’ which has not got its due attention from the western media. The February 24th bombing of the Kherson dam is claimed to have restored water flow through the canal to Crimea. “Russian forces restored water flow to a canal linking the Dnieper River in Ukraine to Russian-annexed Crimea”. […]