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Neighborhood News Digest – 20 June 2023

Afghanistan Restrictions on women, girls should be removed in Afghanistan: UN – Business Standard Representatives from several countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) criticized the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and...

Pakistan’s Deepening Crisis and Budget

Pakistan’s Finance Minister Dar presented the budget for FY 2023-24 on 9th June. Pakistan follows July to June budget cycle. There does not appear to be any serious attempt by the PDM government to address the serious economic crisis the country...

Neighborhood News Digest – 02 June 2023

Afghanistan Australia’s most decorated war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners in Afghanistan, judge says – The Hindu Australia’s most decorated living war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war crimes in Afghanistan, a judge...

Neighbourhood News Digest - 31 May 2023

Afghanistan India strengthens soft power in Afghanistan, sidelining Pakistan: Report - ANI India is strengthening its soft power in Afghanistan by providing critical aid through Iran, thereby side-lining a once essential Pakistan, reported Nikkei...

Neighbourhood News Digest - 30 May 2023

Afghanistan Iran vs Afghanistan: Why Helmand water-sharing dispute is boiling over, decades after treaty – The Print With Afghanistan and Iran locked in a water dispute, tension between the two neighbours has escalated after two Iranian security...

Neighbourhood News Digest – 29 May 2023

Afghanistan Kabul-Tehran issues can be resolved through talks: Afghanistan’s acting FM - Siasat Tehran has been accusing Kabul of making excuses for giving Iran’s share in the water flow, but the Afghan side rejected the allegation, insisting the...

Neighbourhood News Digest – 19 May 2023

Afghanistan Children bearing the brunt of Afghanistan crisis: UNICEF - UN This year, some 2.3 million Afghan boys and girls are expected to face acute malnutrition. Of this number, 875,000 will need treatment for severe acute malnutrition, a life-...

Neighbourhood News Digest – 17 May 2023

Afghanistan 'Afghanistan': Two-thirds of population face food insecurity – First Post Two-thirds of Afghanistan’s population is food insecure, according to Human Rights Watch report. “Afghanistan has largely disappeared from the media, but it...

Neighbourhood News digest - 03 May 2023

Afghanistan Afghanistan’s women and Taliban vie for spotlight at top UN Doha meet – Independent Hundreds of Afghan women have taken part in protests to criticise what they see as an intentional decision to sideline them from a key UN meeting in...

Bailing out Sri Lanka from its Economic Difficulties

Sri Lanka has in the past experienced separatist movements, in which the Tamils and Sinhalese were involved in ethnic conflicts for quite some time. Though this dark phase is over now, there still remains simmering disquiet without of course any...

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