United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and will seek to meet the highest possible officials within the Taliban-led administration after it banned female aid workers, a senior UN official said on Thursday...
“We regret to see that there is already an impact of this decision on our programs,” Ramiz Alakbarov, UN humanitarian aid coordinator in Afghanistan, told reporters in New York...
Marlon James’s Booker prizewinning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings is a fantastic attempt at recounting the attack on Marley through a variety of eccentric, rowdy and colourful characters that provide, to a reasonable extent, a clear, albeit bloody, insight into the violence-stricken Jamaica of the 1970s and ’80s (the story moves further ahead)...
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Sociologists also trace the history of Karachi’s ethnic conflagarations to the 1960s after then president Gen Ayub Khan initiated a plan to settle Pakhtuns — his own ethnic group — in the city...
MQM’s demands included the repatriation and settlement of Biharis (Urdu-speaking East Pakistanis who continue to live in refugee camps) from Bangladesh to Pakistan...
1tr budget, which includes a substantial cut in foreign aid, possibly affecting Pakistan and other recipients...
However, the US military aid to Pakistan also comes from the defence budget where Trump proposed a massive $54bn increase...
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in country's history the Foreign Office organised a three-day exhibition reflecting Pakistan's ancient culture and civilisation which attracted a large number of history lovers along with diplomats...
The exhibition titled 'Ancient Pakistan' is showcasing artifacts and relics from ancient civilisations belonging to the region including Gandhara, Harappa, Mehrgarh and Moen-Jo-Daro...
The research by AidData, a lab at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, is the most extensive effort yet to measure official financing by China, which releases few details of its aid flows...
China's secretiveness about its spending has fueled complaints its aid might prop up corrupt regimes or undercut environmental and human rights standards Western donors are trying to enforce...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would slash nearly a third in funding for diplomacy and foreign aid including global health and food aid, peacekeeping and other forms of non-military foreign involvement...
The budget plan may face rough sledding in Congress, where both Republicans and Democrats have said they do not support such drastic cuts to US diplomacy and foreign aid...
JOHANNESBURG: Superstar French economist Thomas Piketty warned on Friday that international aid could be “undermining” Africa as the continent struggles to lift millions out of poverty despite robust economic growth...
Piketty criticised international aid organisations for needlessly replicating government services, adding that African nations should also work to take more control of revenues created by their vast natural resources......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan declared on Wednesday it did not need any foreign assistance for earthquake victims, but acknowledged the grief and concern expressed by friendly countries...
Also read: Quake toll reaches 267, Nawaz announces relief packageHe said Pakistan was grateful to countries which expressed concern over the calamity and had offered assistance for rescue, relief and rehabilitation for the affected quake-hit people...
GENEVA: All international aid organisations have left the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz following a United States (US) air strike on a hospital run by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) amid heavy fighting, the United Nations (UN) said Tuesday...
Now, he said, "the international aid agencies have been forced out of the city for the time being, so there is essentially no proper healthcare, no proper trauma care for those...
KABUL: Afghanistan was once a magnet for foreign aid workers but surging violence has left NGOs struggling to recruit staff and restricted their ability to deliver crucial aid to the country's vulnerable...
Afghanistan is considered the most dangerous country on Earth for aid workers, according to the Humanitarian Outcomes research group, which reported 54 major attacks against NGOs in 2014...
Highlighting the challenges Pakistan confronted in the face of climatic change, speakers said that an acute lack of planning and poor governance had compounded the burden of climate change challenges multiple times in the country...
Pakistan, they said, was among the countries found most vulnerable to impacts of climate change...
The White House budget director confirmed Saturday that the Trump administration will propose "fairly dramatic reductions" in the US foreign aid budget later this month...
"We are going to propose to reduce foreign aid and we are going to propose to spend that money here," White House Office of Management Budget director Mick Mulvaney told Fox News on Saturday, adding the proposed cuts would include "fairly dramatic reductions in...
Indonesia on Tuesday told foreign aid workers that their help was not needed in disaster-ravaged Palu and they should go home, frustrating relief efforts after a quake-tsunami killed more than 2,000 people...
Foreign teams on the ground were told new rules barred them from searching for the dead in hard-hit parts of Palu, where thousands are missing since the Sept 28 twin disaster...
Afghanistan's finance ministry under the Taliban government has prepared a draft national budget that, for the first time in two decades, is funded without foreign aid, a spokesman said...
Global donors suspended financial aid when the Taliban seized power in August and Western powers also froze access to billions of dollars in assets held abroad...