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UN considering $8 billion economic package for Afghanistan
The amount of money that is supposed to be given to Afghanistan in 2022 will be spent to deliver various services in the war-torn country. The package is aimed at providing healthy food for children in schools, creating job opportunities, paying off electricity debts of Afghanistan to central Asian countries, and rebuilding governance beyond humanitarian aids in the country, the report said.
UN extends exemption of travel ban on Afghan Taliban leaders
In its announcement on Friday, the UNSC said that the ban, which came into force on Wednesday, will last until March 21, 2022, TOLO News reported. Besides Baradar, there are 14 other Taliban members on the ban list, including Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. "The travel ban exemption is solely for travels required for participation in peace and stability discussions in a range of countries," TOLO News quoted the UNSC as saying in its announcement.
Left with no option, UN is ready to pay $6 million to terrorist Sirajuddin Haqqani for security in Afghanistan
The UN is ready with a proposal to pay $6 million per year to Sirajuddin Haqqani who ironically also heads the UN designated terror outfit Haqqani Network (HQN). With a bounty of $10 million on his head, Sirajuddin Haqqani is among the top wanted terrorist list of the US.
Pakistan, Afghanistan to resolve border fencing issue
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said a local intelligence chief of the Taliban tried to remove the fence, and it was not a decision approved by the Taliban leadership, the report said. Soon after the incident, Pakistan and the Taliban established contact at the highest level and agreed to resolve the issue through talks.
Militants in Afghanistan find alternate option
Serious concerns have been expressed by the Central Asian States as well countries in the South and South East Asian region about the possibility of Afghanistan emerging as a hub of Islamic militancy under the Taliban, thus disturbing the security situation in the country and the region.
Kabul to remove all photos of women from billboards at shops, business centres
The spokesman of Kabul municipality, Nematullah Barakzai, said the government has ordered the municipality's officials to remove all photos of women from signboards at shops and business centres in Kabul. "Based on the decision of the government, the photos that are against Islamic regulations will be collected or removed from billboards," said Barakzai, the report said.
Taliban tears down barbed fence on Durand Line amid growing friction with Pak
In another video clip put up by an Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary, Afghan Taliban intelligence chief of the Eastern Nangarhar province, Bashir is seen warning Pakistani soldiers on the Durand Line. If you violate the boundary line, be ready for war with us. We love fighting you more than the Jews. We still have a lot of work to do." The same is happening on the Pakistani side as well
Pakistan's Afghan policy aimed at restructuring its foreign policy out of uncertain grounds
The OIC Council for foreign ministers has predominantly helped Pakistan showcase itself as one of the driving force behind logical and workable headways for a stable and peaceful Afghanistan under the Taliban rule. The participation of not just the OIC member states, but also from P5 countries in the extraordinary session in Islamabad are being seen as a major achievement of the Imran Khan led-government.
Former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai asks Pakistan PM Imran Khan to 'stop speaking on behalf of Afghans'
Now Imran khan showed concerns for the situation of Afghanistan and in his address at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation asked the world to act timely in Afghanistan matter. As a counterpart former Afghan President Karzai asked Pak PM to stop speaking on behalf of Afghans. As soon as Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, many countries stopped funding the country, which has now led to massive economic crisis in the country.
Islamic bloc not willing to channel Afghan assistance through Taliban
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi admitted that one of the reasons the fund was set up was because some of the member countries were not willing to channel assistance through the Taliban government, the report said. The announcement of the fund was part of the measures the 57-member Islamic bloc agreed upon after the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of OIC hosted by Pakistan.
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