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AFGHANISTAN ELECTRICITY CRISIS
What life is like in Pakistan where diesel costs 262 rupees a litreFor months, the world’s fifth most populous country has edged closer to a debt default, echoing the cautionary tales of other developing ec...
Pakistan’s impending gas crisis this winterPakistan government is reluctant to take the risk of purchasing gas from Iran and Russia, fearing international sanctions, and is now showi...
Taliban accuse US of 'usurping' Afghanistan's frozen assetsThe new Afghan Fund, based in Geneva, will not provide humanitarian assistance but will be put in charge of core central bank functions suc...
Taliban deputy PM calls for aid without 'political bias'The Taliban appealed on Friday for emergency humanitarian aid without "political bias", saying recent snow and flooding had worsened the pl...
View: People of Afghanistan facing catastrophic crisis. Who cares?It is not that Afghanistan doesn't have money to buy food to feed its starving masses and pay the salaries to run essential services. The U...
Kabul faces blackout as Taliban falters on electricity bills paymentDomestic production has been affected by this year's drought. As per the report, Afghanistan lacks a national power grid, and Kabul depends...
Pakistan facing difficulties in providing help to Taliban government in Afghanistan without its recognition: ReportThe biggest challenge for the Afghan administration was the void created by a major exodus of technical and financial experts soon after th...
Mideast in shambles, but the world has moved on for nowThe situation in the Middle East has deteriorated significantly in more countries and in more ways in the last two years. Lebanon, Syria, I...
Running out of dollars, Afghan banks ask Taliban for more cashThe cash squeeze threatens to upend the country's already battered economy, largely dependent on hundreds of millions of dollars shipped by...
As West ponders aid for Afghanistan, China and Pakistan quick to provide reliefThe economy in the war-torn country is in crisis and a humanitarian crisis is looming, experts say. Yet the United States and other Western...
Short on money, legal and otherwise, the Taliban face a crisisEnayatullah — his family name withheld — holds down a tiny point in a sprawling global network of informal lenders and backroom bankers cal...
The new US challenge in Afghanistan: Coping with Taliban ruleHowever fierce in battle, the Taliban seem to understand that governing an impoverished, war-ravaged nation is a very different challenge f...
India cautions US on peace deal with Taliban, looks at ChinaThe govt has expressed its reservations before the US special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, who visited India last month...
Pakistan eyes $ 58 billion investment in power sector till 2022A total of 4,000 MW of LNG-based power plants would become operational by mid-2017 while $ 2 billion had been invested in LNG terminals and...
Taliban attack Kabul airport as Afghan poll audit startsThe attack began around 0530 IST and was still underway, but no casualties have been reported so far, the ministry said.
Pakistan, India should cut defence spending: Prime Minister Nawaz SharifReplying to a question on Afghanistan, Sharif said Pakistan will adopt a policy of "non-interference" while dealing with its neighbour.
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