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 […]

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 […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has signed contracts with Turkmenistan and Iran to import thousands of tons of oil and gas – amid rising fuel prices not only in Afghanistan but also globally. The acting deputy prime minister’s office said Monday that the public can expect changes in oil and liquid gas prices in the near future, adding that […]

An Afghan delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate, Amir Khan Muttaqi, met with the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov on Monday on the sidelines of the Tashkent meeting. Norov expressed his happiness over the participation of the high-level Afghan delegation and added that the progress of Afghanistan will be explained […]

In the last two days, 592 migrants from Afghanistan were deported from Istanbul Airport and Ankara Esenboğa Airport. In addition to the increased security measures at the borders to combat illegal immigration, inspections regarding the arrest of those who entered Turkey illegally continue, Turkish media reports. According to Turkey’s Department of Migration Management of the Ministry of Interior, flights were […]

The civil unrest in Karakalpakstan, originally part of Soviet Kazakhstan and an autonomous republic in Uzbekistan since 1936, which caused the loss of 18 lives, was a shock to the Tashkent government which was readying a package of 170 amendments to the constitution (the Basic Law), and is preparing to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit meeting in September. The […]

Electricity allows us to live in great comfort, but we also need to be conscious of the fact that it is a finite resource. Additionally, the global energy crisis has practically become a worry for all of us, and it is expected of each of us to use energy wisely every day. It’s not all that difficult. You may easily […]