Tag: consequences

A decade after US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in a special operation in Pakistan, Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US drone strike in Kabul.Both men were synonymous with the image of al-Qaida. But more than anything, the killing of Zawahiri is a symbolic success for Joe ...

The extreme temperatures Europe has experienced in recent weeks have resulted in an increase in the rate of snowpack melt in the Alpine glaciers. As in many other parts of the world, the consequences are increasingly visible in the Alps, where the glaciers are particularly vulnerable due to their smaller ...

The Narendra Modi government’s decision to ban all export shipments of wheat with immediate effect on May 14, a day after announcing that trade delegations were being sent to nine countries “for exploring possibilities of boosting wheat exports,” is yet another illustration of how the current dispensation bulldozes policymaking ...

Deputy Minister of Information and Culture and chief spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Zabiullah Mujahid, has condemned Pakistan's recent airstrikes on Khost and Kunar provinces in the strongest terms, adding that any replay will have dire implications.Mujahid added that Afghans by defeating the US have proven that ...

Beijing's vice foreign minister blames NATO for stoking the instability that led to the Russia-Ukraine conflict Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng has said globalization should not be “weaponized” and military-bloc politics must be “rejected.” The comments come a day after US President Joe Biden warned his Chinese counterpart, Xi ...

Pakistan hosts OIC meeting that aims to devise a mechanism for the international community to deliver aid to Afghanistan, despite sanctions.Member nations of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are holding a special meeting in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad to discuss solutions to address the humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Afghanistan. ...

#Pakistan News UN children's agency has urged governments in South Asia to reopen schools, warning that the consequences of interrupted learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic could last decades. One study in India showed that the proportion of grade 3 children who could read a grade 1 level text ...

New Delhi:  India was not taken into confidence on various aspects of the Doha deal inked between the US and the Taliban last year and the latest developments in Afghanistan will have “very, very significant consequences” for the region and beyond, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. He ...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday urged the international community to adopt a “new positive approach” towards Afghanistan, warning that isolating the country will have “serious consequences” for the Afghan people, the region and the world at large. Qureshi made the comments during a joint press conference ...

As the world is coming to grips with the sudden change of regime in Afghanistan, it is important to reflect on what led to this point. So far analyses have focused on the corruption and weakness of the Afghan state set up after the US-NATO invasion of the country ...