Afghanistan receives over 8,000 foreign tourists in two years
More than 8,000 foreign tourists visited Afghanistan over the past two years, local media TOLOnews reported Saturday, citing a government official.
More than 8,000 foreign tourists visited Afghanistan over the past two years, local media TOLOnews reported Saturday, citing a government official.
The March 22 attacks in Moscow have raised the spectre of international terrorism. While these terror strikes were claimed by the Islamic State, Russia suspects a Ukrainian hand in the attacks.
The notification of the rules providing mechanisms to implement the much-hyped Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on March 11 by the Union government after a delay of more than four years and ahead of Lok Sabha elections has reignited the debate over this controversial legislation.
Reacting to Pakistan's airstrikes in Afghanistan, the White House has called on both the nations to address their differences through dialogue.
There is always a slip between the cup and the lip when it comes to Pakistan’s reality. What is publicly postured is seldom so. Creation of Bangladesh in 1971 was amongst the most powerful symbols of an unsustainable rationale for the only nation to be created in the name of religion.
Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and needs immediate financial help who are facing acute hunger combined with a severe drought and the coronavirus pandemic.
Hundreds of thousands of job losses have been seen in several key sectors which have been "devastated" since the takeover, ILO said.
After cutting and running from Afghanistan last year, and having earlier effectively Balkanised an Iraq which under the Ba’ath Socialists/Saddam Hussein was a functional, secular ~ albeit criminally oppressive ~ state, the US Administration has now clarified that nation-building is expressly not a part of Washington’s agenda in countries where it has intervened militarily, more often than not on a dodgy legal basis.
The report says that "many of the selected theologians are graduates of Darul Uloom Haqqania madrasa, one of Pakistan's oldest and largest Islamic seminaries".
The withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in August last year significantly reduced US airstrikes in the region, allowing the TTP to operate more freely, the report said.
