Pakistan
Activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Wednesday said she was grateful for Qatar's role in evacuating people from Afghanistan, prompting a response from Qatar's Assistant Foreign Minister HE Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater. “Gr..
Islamabad, August 26 (QNA) - HE Chairman of the Senate of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Sadiq Sanjrani met with HE Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Pakistan Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani. The meeting dealt with reviewing bilater..
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday lifted a direct entry ban on expats from 20 countries, a decision taken in February to curb the spread of COVID-19. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ agency for consular affairs said the decision only applied to expats..
REUTERS Japanese military planes assigned to evacuate Japanese nationals from Afghanistan are now in a nearby country but moving them from Kabul airport does not mean Japan is ending its evacuation operation, Japanese government officials said on ..
AFP The US conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State target in Afghanistan on Saturday, as the airlift of those desperate to flee moved into a fraught final stage with fresh terror attack warnings and encroaching Taliban forces primed to t..
REUTERS NATO allies are struggling to ensure that Afghanistan's main gateway, Kabul airport, remains open for urgently needed humanitarian aid flights next week when they end their evacuation airlifts and turn it over to the Taliban. The ai..
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it will resume issuing tourist visas to vaccinated travellers from Aug 30, the state news agency (WAM) reported on Saturday. The decision also covered people coming in from countries from which the UAE had previ..
REUTERS U.S. forces are in the final phase of leaving Kabul, ending two decades of involvement in Afghanistan, and just over 1,000 civilians at the airport remain to be flown out before troops withdraw, a Western security official said on Sunday. ..
REUTERS Turkey cannot take the burden of a new migrant wave from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday after talks with his German counterpart, as concerns about a new migrant wave remain after the Taliban's taking of p..