1TV: Afghanistan’s exports to China have been affected as the only airline that used to carry the country’s goods to the neighboring country suspended its flights due to the coronavirus outbreak. The airline used to carry 20 tonnes of Afghan goods mostly pine nuts through air corridor to China daily, but it didn’t happen on
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health has taken “monitoring measures” in the country’s airports to prevent the outbreak of a new lethal virus that so far has killed at least 41 people in China. An outbreak of “coronavirus” began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. So far it has infected more than 1,300 globally,
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 14, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s newly opened southwestern Gwadar seaport has begun handling transit cargo headed to and from landlocked Afghanistan, marking a significant outcome of Islamabad’s multi-billion-dollar collaboration with China. Officials said the first ship full of Afghan cargo containers reached Gwadar on Tuesday. The containers will be loaded
Tolo News: Amid reports of disagreements over the list of the participants for the Beijing peace meeting on Afghanistan, the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday said that it expects the plan for such a meeting to be implemented in the near future. When asked whether the meeting was cancelled, Geran Hewad, a spokesman for
1TV: China has not taken steps that would make it a real contributor to Afghanistan’s stabilization, a top US State Department official said on Thursday. “I see opportunities for the United States and China to be important partners in reinforcing the need for a negotiated political settlement you see ambassador Khalilzad regularly consulting with his Chinese
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani in a phone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday agreed to a meeting which will be held in Beijing and will include a Taliban delegation to discuss Afghanistan’s peace agreement, presidential spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. The meeting, to be held in the “near future,” will be the first
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 23, 2019 The United Nations and the European Union have joined the United Sates and five European countries in reiterating their commitment to reaching a “sustainable peace agreement” that ends the 18-year war in Afghanistan. A joint statement was released on October 22 in Brussels, where U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 29, 2019 ISLAMABAD – A regional Chinese diplomat has rebuked the United States for being “ignorant” about his country’s ongoing key economic contributions and cooperation with Afghanistan. Arrangements are being worked out to enhance the cooperation with Kabul even under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Yao Jing, the Chinese
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 22,, 2019 ISLAMABAD – A visiting Afghan Taliban delegation held talks with senior officials in China Sunday to discuss the Islamist insurgent group’s now defunct peace negotiations with the United States. The insurgent visit comes two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump had abruptly called off his administration’s months-long peace
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 17, 2019 The UN Security Council has unanimously extended its assistance mission in Afghanistan after China withdrew its threat of a veto if the text did not mention Beijing’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. The 15 members of the council on September 17 extended the mission for one year with