Foreign investors repatriated nearly $7.7 million earned in Pakistan, State Bank

    The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) says that foreign investors repatriated around $7.7 million earned in Pakistan. According to the central bank, $6.1 million earned through direct investment was repatriated in March. 1.7 million dollars earned from portfolio investment was repatriated from Pakistan. Foreign investors repatriated $233.1 million earned in Pakistan from July to March….

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    Afghanistan: Security Council condemns Taliban’s ban on women working for UN

    Afghanistan: Security Council condemns Taliban’s ban on women working for UN

    The resolution passed unanimously by the 15-member body in New York, calls for the “full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women and girls in Afghanistan”, and urges all countries and organisations with influence on the fundamentalist rulers of the country, “to promote an urgent reversal” of policies which have in effect erased women from public…

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    UN humanitarians will return to Khartoum ‘as quickly as possible’: UN aid coordinator

    UN humanitarians will return to Khartoum ‘as quickly as possible’: UN aid coordinator

    Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Abdou Dieng, speaking from Port Sudan, told reporters in the briefing room in New York that senior leadership would be returning to the Sudanese capital, as soon as the situation allows. The needs are urgent, and widespread, he said, as the final few hours of a US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire neared, with…

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