BEIJING--Asian stock markets declined Tuesday amid concern about turmoil in Afghanistan and unease about China's economic outlook after weak July activity. Investors looked ahead to a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell for an update on the health of the biggest global economy.... Thousands of people tried to flee the country after the Taliban seized the capital, Kabul. Markets also were digesting news that Chinese factory output, consumer spending and investment grew slower i

Join our Whatsapp channel ISLAMABAD: The Senate functional committee was informed that Afghanistan has rejected the notion of a border market, and progress on the proposal with Iran is slow owing to what the commerce ministry officials claimed the Iranian government’s inordinate delay. ADVERTISEMENT The Senate committee on problems of less developed areas was chaired by Senator Agha Shahzaib Durrani to discuss initiatives launched by the commerce ministry to promote local trade facilities, inclu

Twenty years after they were ousted, the Taliban are once again in control of Afghanistan.... Ghani.A market scene in central Kabul.At a beauty salon in Kabul, images of women had been defaced. Tuesday Pressure mounted on the Biden administration to do more to evacuate thousands of Afghan allies.... The Taliban sought to present themselves to the world as responsible stewards of Afghanistan....

“ In September, Pakistan will have the highest textile orders of 2021, ” says Khurrum Mukhtar, Patron in Chief of the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association while explaining that the shipping backlog in the United States is delaying placement of further orders.... However, a range of trade levers may be used to pressurise Pakistan.... Levers of the West “ The US is not likely to take a knee-jerk reaction to the events in Afghanistan nor will GSP plus be impacted, ” says Ehsan Malik, CEO of the

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For decades, roughly a thousand families called the low-slung mud-walled neighborhood of Firqa home.... Conflicting legal systems dictating land ownership and a lack of documentation have further destabilized the property market through the generations. Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule With the departure of the U.S. military on Aug.... 30, Afghanistan quickly fell back under control of the Taliban....

HERAT, Afghanistan — Afghanistan has already imported its epidemic.... People congregated in teeming markets and in mosques and parks, greeting one another with traditional hugs and kisses on the cheek.... Rahimi, the Herat provincial governor, imposed a lockdown on Herat city beginning on Wednesday....

The situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated over the past few years, which naturally alarms Russia. First, Moscow fears that this zone of instability could spread northwards into the Central Asian countries that border Russia.

The US lost its 20-year campaign to transform Afghanistan.... It collected nearly$ 4 billion in federal contracts, according to publicly available records. Four months after the last American troops left Afghanistan, the U.S.is assessing the lessons to be learned.... Among those, some officials and watchdog groups say, is the reliance on battlefield contractors and how that adds to the costs of waging war. Since the Sept....

THERE is a belief that good journalists remain neutral in a conflict between two or more sides.... The ethnic massacres in Rwanda had turned into a single column story below the weather box.... Then one day in Kigali a wire service stringer made an unusual observation about Rwanda’s new murderous capital with its suspicious communities who otherwise shared a common language, colour of skin, mixed marriages and a single church....

ISLAMABAD: The mortgage finance market in Pakistan remains critically underdeveloped whereas the supply of housing for low-income groups in the country remains negligible despite high demand, the International Finance Corporation( IFC) of the World Bank Group has said in a study.... Most of the housing supply targets the high and affluent class in line with commercial viability and affordability.... Only 1pc of housing supply caters to 68pc of the population earning a monthly income of up to$