Humanitarian aid
Neighbourhood News Digest - 5 December 2024

Afghanistan Over 90 percent of Afghanistan’s districts face limited access to humanitarian aid: UN Report – UN Report The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released a new report highlighting the restricted...

Myanmar Round Up: March 2024

The situation in Myanmar remains troubled since the military coup in February 2021. Myanmar's military chief, Min Aung Hlaing, acknowledged the possibility that the country might not be able to conduct its next nationwide election. The military's...

Neighborhood News Digest- 26 March 2024

Afghanistan Pakistani Delegation Arrives in Kabul-Tolo News The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) said that a delegation headed by Pakistan's Federal Secretary of Commerce, officially invited by the ministry, arrived in Kabul on Monday....

Neighborhood News Digest- 09 February 2024

Afghanistan Muttaqi Criticizes Human Rights Rhetoric of West-Tolo News The Acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said that during the last 20 years, acts of terrorism have been carried out in Afghanistan in the name of human rights. Click...

Neighborhood News Digest – 20 November 2023

Afghanistan Pakistan military says four fighters killed near Afghanistan border – AlJazeera Pakistani security forces have killed four armed fighters, including a highly sought individual, near the northwestern border with Afghanistan, the military...

Neighborhood News Digest – 17 November 2023

Afghanistan Pakistan’s Envoy: ‘We Will Recognize Taliban Regime Simultaneously’- Tolo News Asif Durrani, Pakistan's Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that Pakistan will not unilaterally take steps to recognize the current Afghan...

Neighborhood News Digest – 26 June 2023

Afghanistan: Clerics call upon Taliban to reopen schools for girls above sixth grade – The Print Some religious leaders in Parwan province of Afghanistan have called upon the Taliban regime to reopen schools for girls above the sixth grade, reported...

VIF Neighbourhood News Digest - December 30, 2022

h5>Afghanistan NRC Chief Urges West to Engage with Islamic Emirate: Tolo News Jan Egeland, head of Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, urged the West to engage with the Islamic Emirate. Egeland made the remarks in a special interview with TOLOnews. He...

What Can BIMSTEC Deliver That SAARC Could Not?

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hosted the 5th BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) Summit in a “hybrid mode” from 28 to 30 March 2022, marking the grouping’s 25 years of existence. As was...

Biden’s Executive Order on Afghan Funds

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 prompted governments and international institutions to quickly freeze Afghan Central Bank assets abroad. Reportedly, about $7.1 bn of Afghan assets was held in the US.[1] On February 11, 2022, the...

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