Cash-reliant Afghanistan is set to get new banknotes, that will be printed in Europe, as those in circulation crumble and disintegrate, the US State Department’s Spokesman Ned Price confirmed Wednesday. Price said at a press conference in Washington that two transactions to pay to print Afghani banknotes has been facilitated by the US. “These two transactions have been underway for […]

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Riyadh on Monday ahead of the sixth edition of the Future Investment Initiative. He was received at King Khalid International Airport by the deputy governor of Riyadh region Prince Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki, and Pakistan’s ambassador to the Kingdom Ameer Khurram Rathore. Earlier, […]

How can the somnolent Congress be revved up? Now that the Congress party in India has overwhelmingly elected Mallikajun Kharge, the first “non-Gandhi” as its President, the question as to whether the 80-year old party veteran and seasoned warhorse will be able to awaken the 137-year old sleeping giant to be a threat to the dominance of the BJP led […]

On October 10, 2022, the son of a local peace committee member was shot dead by unidentified terrorists in the Waliabad area of Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). In a separate incident, on the same day, unidentified terrorists attacked a school van in the Charbagh area of Swat District, killing the driver and injuring two students. On October 9, 2022, […]

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was a huge success which was achieved under bipartisan support and served as a show of strength against China. However, under the veneer of this favorable situation, lies a different reality. The trip did not have the support of the Republican and Democratic parties; since Pelosi threatened the national security of the […]

Ruling Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s next five years will likely see more hard-line policies out of Beijing on the economy, foreign relations, human rights and public dissent, analysts told RFA. Germany-based ethnic Mongolian rights activist Xi Haiming said the fact that Xi had packed the Politburo Standing Committee with his close allies showed that he can now act […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has called on Islamic countries and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to recognize them as the new government and to engage positively with the new regime. The Islamic Emirate has also called on Islamic countries to interact with them on both a political and economic level. Fourteen months ago the IEA swept to […]

Pakistan, India and Bangladesh are three South Asia neighbouring countries, sharing common history but presenting different political and economic scenarios since beginning. Pakistan and India started its journey as independent nations 1947 ( almost 75 years old), Bangladesh in 1970 almost 52 years old. The two countries India and Pakistan soon after independence started their political and economic journey in […]

In a widely anticipated ruling, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has disqualified former Prime Minister Imran Khan from being a member of Parliament or of a Provincial Assembly and ordered legal proceedings against him for indulging in corrupt practices. The agony of Imran’s supporters seeing their icon being delivered a technical knock-out is matched only by the irony of […]

China’s ruling Communist Party leader Xi Jinping began a third five-year term in office on Sunday, packing the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee with his close political allies, in a consolidation of personal power not seen in Beijing since the personality cult surrounding Mao Zedong. The first plenary session of the party’s 20th Central Committee re-elected Xi to the post of […]