MONITORING (SW) – Pakistan’s foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday said Islamabad would continue cooperation with the United Nations Human Rights machinery for the promotion and protection of all human rights and realisation of the sustainable development agenda.
KABUL (SW) – The UN Children Fund has said it aims to reach 12.9 million children with life-saving assistance in Afghanistan, but cannot achieve it without urgent support.
MONITORING (SW) – Russian forces have declared a ceasefire to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha.
KABUL (SW) – The revenue collected through imports has surged to around $ 1 billion, said officials on Thursday.
MONITORING (SW) – The Committee to Protect Journalists has said in a fresh report that the media in Afghanistan that emerged in the two decades after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan has entered a ‘chilling new phase in its clamp down’.
MONITORING (SW) – Another radio station in Afghanistan went off the air for good due to the prevailing security and economic situation.
MONITORING (SW) – Rina Amiri, US Special Representative for Afghanistan’s Women and Human Rights, has said the Islamic Emirate must use the talents of women and girls to move toward stability and what its citizens deserve.
MONITORING (SW) – The Amnesty International has urged the Islamic Emirate to ‘immediately’ stop the ongoing house to house search in Kabul.
MONITORING (SW) – The west has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan and its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the country, according to David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee.
LOGAR (SW) – An official at passport department in Logar province has reportedly escaped along with an estimated 3 million afghanis in revenue collected there.
MONITORING (SW) – The foreign ministers of the US and Qatar have met in Germany and discussed the situation in Afghanistan, said an official statement.
MONITORING (SW) – Reuters has reported that Pakistan’s military has stepped up operations along the Durand Line with Afghanistan in recent weeks.
