The China Pakistan Economic Corridor's (CPEC) western part is expected to be completed by 2018 and fears of some Pakistani lawmakers, that the project could become like another...
Year: 2016
CPEC Becoming Like East India Co. Is ‘Baseless, Unfair’ Fear, Says Pakistan Government
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor's (CPEC) western part is expected to be completed by 2018 and fears of some Pakistani lawmakers, that the project could become like another...
Chinese Group Eyes $3b Deals in Pakistan Roads, Energy Sector
A consortium of Chinese companies is planning to bring a $3 billion investment fund to Pakistan, representatives of these companies told Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during their...
Chinese Consortium to Launch New Airline in Pakistan
Praising the country’s economy as capable of absorbing and capitalising the direct foreign investment, the Chinese investors have expressed their interest in launching a new...
Afghanistan’s First Privately Financed Power Plant Generates Promise
Countries with a recent history of war and violence are used to making headlines, but it’s rarely for reasons that citizens and their leaders would hope for. That might be...
Afghan Weekly (Oct 29 – Nov 5, 2016)
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), in its 33rd quarterly report to Congress, revealed that "Of Afghanistan's 407 districts, 258 districts were...
Afghanistan Itself Is Now Taking In the Most Afghan Migrants
"By the end of the year, officials expect some 1.5 million migrants to return to Afghanistan — many of them forcibly, and including some registered as refugees." There is one...
Why is the gender gap widening in Pakistan?
The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Pakistan at 143 out of 144 countries surveyed. The disparity represents a systemic and historical disadvantage for...
Kafka in Cuba: New AAN report on The Afghan Experience in Guantánamo
Afghans make up more than a quarter of the inmates ever held at Guantánamo Bay, the largest national grouping among United States ‘war on terror’ detainees taken to Cuba. Most...
At least We aren’t Turkey
Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan gleefully greeted Imran Khan’s decision to shelve his Nov 2 ‘lockdown’ plans of Islamabad with a “no winners or losers today” declaration. “Today...
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