The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has approved the import of 200,000 tonnes of sugar and 400,000 tonnes of wheat to build the strategic reserves in order to stabilize the price of these commodities in the market. A subcommittee was constituted to work out modalities for placing tenders in the international market in a timely manner.
Xi urged all parties in Afghanistan to build an open and inclusive political framework, implement moderate, stable policies and cut ties with all terrorist groups.
Pakistan-Russia relations uplifted 2014 onwards when both countries had signed a defence pact. The deal laid down an exchange of intelligence and promotion of cooperation on international security.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rasheed claims that India's shameful defeat is evident by its outcry in Afghanistan as with its consulates closed, it cannot use Afghan soil against Pakistan. He delineates that the world would now know about India's nefarious designs in the region and realize that Pakistan desire peace and stability in Afghanistan.
The United States has long claimed that it has sent aid worth $33 billion to Pakistan for the country's support in the war of terror, but this claim is very far from the truth. According to the research done by a leading policy institute in Pakistan, the US has highly exaggerated the number and only a small percentage of the claimed amount made it to projects in Pakistan.
Amrullah Saleh implies that Afghanistan was under pressure from the US and Pakistan to release the Taliban, which led to its eventual downfall, the very US that put his government in power in the first place.
