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Pakistan PM calls for nationwide protests ahead of no-confidence vote

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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the masses to raise their voice against the “foreign conspiracy” being hatched to topple down his government. The parliament is set to vote on the no-trust motion against him on Sunday.
Asia

UN chief: 95% of Afghans do not have enough food

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned some 95 percent of people in Afghanistan do not have enough to eat and millions are at risk of famine.
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Iran says concerned over Daesh recruitment in Afghanistan and spread of terror

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The Iranian foreign minister says Tehran is seriously concerned over Daesh terror group recruiting inside Afghanistan as well as in some regional countries.
Asia

Iran, Pakistan FMs: depriving of girls from education frustrating

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The foreign ministers of Iran and Pakistan have described as frustrating the deprivation of Afghan girls from education.
Foreign Policy

Iran, Pakistan FMs meet on sidelines of Afghanistan forum in China

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has held a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, on the sidelines of a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbors in China.
Asia

Chinese FM in Afghanistan ahead of neighbors meeting

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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Kabul on Thursday, a Taliban official confirmed. It comes a week before Beijing hosts a meeting of Afghanistan's neighbours to explore ways of helping the country following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Asia

UN says Afghan girls school suspension ‘deeply damaging’

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that Taliban's decision to suspend high school for girls in Afghanistan was "a profound disappointment and deeply damaging for Afghanistan."
Asia

Taliban order girls’ schools shut

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The Taliban have shut down girls’ school in Afghanistan.
Asia

Taliban ban Afghan national flag

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The Taliban have issued a decree on Sunday officially banning the internationally-recognized Afghan tricolor flag and replacing it with the so-called Islamic Emirate flag used by the group.
Asia

US: ISIS attacks to ‘ramp up’ in summer due to Taliban failure

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Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of US Central Command, says that the Taliban is failing in their efforts to shut down Daesh in Afghanistan and that it appears likely that the terror group’s attacks will increase as the summer months approach.
Asia

Karzai: Iran has not withheld any assistance to Afghanistan

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Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai says the Islamic Republic of Iran has not withheld any assistance to the government and people of Afghanistan.
Asia

Taliban lash against millennial Persian New Year ritual

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The caretaker Taliban government says it does not recognize Nowruz, the Persian New Year that starts with the beginning of spring, adding that Afghanistan will not mark the “un-Islamic” ancestral festivity, which Afghan people widely celebrate every year.
Asia

Taliban secretive Haqqani Network leader finally shows face for 1st time

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One of the Taliban's most secretive leaders was photographed openly for the first time Saturday at a passing-out parade for new Afghan police recruits. His only picture on US "most wanted" lists is a grainy semi-covered profile.
Incidents

UN chief condemns deadly mosque attack in Pakistan

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The United Nations Secretary General has condemned a deadly suicide bombing that devastated a Shia mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday.
Asia

Daesh claims responsibility for Pakistan mosque deadly bombing

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The Daesh terror group says an Afghan suicide bomber affiliated to the group, struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar during Friday prayers. The blast took at least 56 lives wounding 194 people.
Middle East

Iraq’s top Shia authority slams Peshawar mosque bombing

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Iraq’s top Shia authority Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani has issued a statement following the Friday bombing in a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar that killed a number of Shia Muslim worshippers.
Foreign Policy

Iran FM: US would not have chosen ’embarrassing’ Afghanistan withdrawal if it could

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Iranian Foreign Minister has dismissed US claims that its withdrawal from Afghanistan had all been planned beforehand. Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Americans would not have opted for such an "embarrassing" pullout if they had other choices.
Economy

Pakistan OKs legal mechanism to facilitate barter trade with Iran

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Pakistan’s economic authorities have approved a legal mechanism designed to facilitate barter trade with Iran in new step in the direction of expanding commercial ties between the two neighbors.
Foreign Policy

Iranian president’s special envoy meets Afghan ministers in Kabul

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The Iranian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan has met with the Taliban’s minister of energy and water as well as minister of foreign affairs.
Americas

3 more countries impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

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Australia, Canada and Japan have issued sanctions against Russia on Tuesday. The have joined the growing list of countries that have taken economic action after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized two Ukrainian regions as independent states and moved Russian forces into eastern Ukraine.
Asia

Disabled Afghans call on Biden to return Afghan funds

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Scores of disabled persons staged a protest in Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province on Tuesday, urging the United States to return Afghan assets.
Asia

US says no progress in formation of inclusive govt. in Afghanistan

IFP Media Wire -
US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West says efforts for an inclusive government in Afghanistan have failed so far, but there has been progress about girls’ education.
Asia

General: Iran pursuing Helmand River water rights

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Iran’s top general says the country is actively pursuing its rights to water from the Helmand River on the border with Afghanistan.
Asia

Angry Afghans protesters call on US to return frozen assets

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Thousands of Afghans poured into the streets of Kabul on Tuesday to condemn the recent U.S. decision to freeze Afghan assets, calling the move as unjust and open stealing.
Asia

Taliban accuse US of breaking its promises

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The acting Afghan foreign minister has accused the United States of not following through on the commitments it made during the talks in Qatar’s Doha.
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