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Taliban to cease fire in areas only affected by coronavirus: Mujahid
 
The Khaama Press | 2^nd April
 
The Taliban group has said it would cease fire in areas which would be affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in a bid to allow the medical te

Taliban is a Strategic Tool for Pakistan’s Foreign Policy

The Khaama Press | 26^th March

After the Partition of India and the creation of Pakistan as an independent state on 14 August 1947, Islamabad military strategists have focused on the idea of st

‘Two-presidents dilemma’ rings alarm bells of ‘partition’
Afghanistan Times | 10^th March
 
Amid risks of political polarization, the Senate has taken umbrage at acrimonious feud between the political rivals Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah, warning that the

Afghanistan Did Not Commit to Release 5,000 Taliban, Ghani Says

Daily Outlook Afghanistan (Reuters) | 2^nd March
The government of Afghanistan has made no commitment to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners as stated in a pact signed between the United States

Indian Exim Bank to loan funds for Gulhifalhu Port development
 
Maldives Times | 13^th February
Maldives government has revealed that an expenditure of US$ 300 million will be incurred to develop the Gulhifalhu port, and that the funds will be arrang

India eyes Belonia-Feni railway connectivity with Bangladesh
 
Prothom Alo | 6^th February
Belonia subdivision of South Tripura may emerge as a point of connectivity as plans are underway to connect it with Myanmar’s Sittwe Port via Bangladesh’s Fen

Bangladesh will climb from the 40th place in the World economic league table in 2020 to 25th by 2034 if the economy grows at around 7.3 per cent for nine years after 2025, according to a forecast of Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

The release of 5,000 prisoners of Taliban has been written in to the peace agreement draft which is going to be soon signed between United States and Taliban, AP reported. A Taliban official familiar with the on-again, off-again talks taking place in

Nepal has proposed to India that the two countries meet for foreign secretary-level talks in mid-January to resolve an ongoing boundary dispute, but the meeting is unlikely to take place, say officials. There has just been a change of guard at the In

Preliminary results show that incumbent president Ashraf Ghani has secured 50.64 percent of votes in the election held on September 28, the Independent Election Commission announced. A total of 1,824,401 votes were cast in the election, IEC chief Haw

Former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf filed a petition in the Lahore High Court challenging a special court’s verdict sentencing him to death in a high treason case.The petition was filed by Azhar Siddique on behalf of Musharraf in the High Co

Amid mounting international criticism of Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi over her denial of genocide allegations at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Japanese ambassador to Myanmar said his government firmly believes that no

A special court in Islamabad found former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf guilty of high treason and handed him a death sentence under Article 6 of the Constitution. This is the first time in Pakistan's history that a military chief has b

State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said that Myanmar’s delegation defended the country “to the best of their ability” against genocide charges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in her first briefing to the nation since she returned from

Taliban announced that the intra-Afghan peace dialogue is possible only after a full foreign forces withdrawal agreement is in place.“Intra-Afghan negotiations will begin only after an agreement with America on the withdrawal of all foreign troops fr

The attention of the country this week has been focused on the hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, as State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi defended the nation.The State Counsellor appeared before the ICJ t

President Ashraf Ghani addressed the eighth ministerial conference of the “Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process” in Turkey and emphasized the need for a political solution to the conflict in Afghanistan and stressed the need for an international and region

The parliamentary delegation led by Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with 'Lok Sabha', the lower house of the Indian Parliament.Signed during Parliament's official visit to India, the agreement aims to bol

Secretary-level meetings between the Shipping Ministries of Bangladesh and India will be held at the InterContinental Dhaka later this week. The meeting of the standing committee on “Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade” (PIWTT) affairs will be

The Asia Foundation-Afghanistan, with the support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched the 15th annual Survey of the Afghan People (the Survey). First launched in 2004, this year the Survey gathered the opinions of more