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China has set its lowest annual GDP target in decades, as premier Li Keqiang warned of a “grave and uncertain” outlook against the backdrop of the coronavirus, a slowing economy and the war in Ukraine. Li announced on Saturday the unusually modest target of about 5.5% growth for 2022 – the lowest since 1991...

Medics staged protests in Afghanistan, to demand their full pay. The doctors and other employees at a COVID-19 hospital over nonpayment of their salaries. Some held protests of 'don't steal from us’ as they marched through the streets, local media reports. The economy in Afghanistan has been collapsing, leading to mass...

A newly published report by a UN agency has warned that China will be among the countries hardest hit by global warming. According to a report published by UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), China needs to do more to adapt to mounting climate hazards. It will need to find...

Afghanistan’s former Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Nargis Nehan has warned that leniency towards the Taliban will prove disastrous. He said such move would embolden fundamentalist groups elsewhere to stage similar takeovers. He told European Foundation for South Asian Studies’ Director Junaid Qureshi, Nargis Nehan who now lives in Norway as a political refugee...

Parts of North China have experienced a shortage of natural gas in what is blamed on the harsh winter season. Experts also blamed the jump in prices to international price factors that have been on an all-time high in recent weeks. International media quoted Ma Chenchen, writing in YICAI Global who...

Women have started a trending hashtag in Pakistan ahead of the Women’s Day’s celebrations set for March 8. The hashtag ‘#SaveDaughtersOfSindh’ trending in the country has been trending the whole week, informed by discrimination and lack of recognition. In Pakistan’s Sindh, women have been on the receiving end, prompting the hashtag...

Taliban has announced it will no longer allow further evacuations of Afghans from the country. The Taliban government Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the move was taken to ensure situation of those already abroad improves. Mujahid told a news conference that the government had noted that the situation of some of the Afghans evacuated were living in...

The European Union called Taliban's home searches a "crime" and called for an end to the operation that kicked off last week. Taliban security forces have been searching homes, in the guise of mopping up illegally-held guns by civilians and criminals. EU Ambassador to Afghanistan, Von Brant, has said the world is watching the...

Amid the growing economic woes and international isolation forcing over-reliance on China, Pakistani officials are ready to scrap the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), if the US could offer a similar deal, local media said. Pakistani authorities who remain predisposed to the West have even offered to scrap or sideline the CPEC if Washington could...

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has worsened the terror situation in the country. In 2021, terror incidents increased by a massive 42 percent over the last year according to the Islamabad-based Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), reported The New York Times on Tuesday. A significant surge in incidents was recorded...