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KABUL (Pajhwok): Kabul, Beijing and Islamabad last week pledged to further strengthen trilateral cooperation on security and counterterrorism, with China calling on the Islamic Emirate

KABUL (Pajhwok): Last week, the United Nations (UN) said that Participants the Doha meeting agreed on the need for a strategy of engagement with the

Different statements were made about the agenda of next month’s meeting on Afghanistan in Doha last week, when the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the Islamic Emirate’s decision to ban women from working with the world’s body.

Last week, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called the ban on women working for the world body illegal and unacceptable, with the Samarkand foreign ministerial meeting underlining the need for an inclusive government in the country.

The Islamic Emirate’s decision to ban women from working with UN agencies drew widespread reactions last week, when the interim government expressed its desire to expand bilateral relations with Russia and Japan pledged $5 million in aid to Afghanistan.

Some sources once again called on the caretaker government to reopen the doors of education on girls last week, when Russia said the situation in Afghanistan should be closely monitored and Japan pledged $21 million in aid to Afghanistan.

Some sources once again asked the caretaker government last week to reopen education centers for teenage girls in the new academic year that started on Tuesday.  The two former presidents of Afghanistan again stressed on a national dialogue in the country.

Some domestic and foreign sources once again insisted on the opening of education centers for girls last week, when the Islamic Emirate expressed its readiness to interact with the world to address common concerns, saying the regime was committed to all Sharia rights of the nation.

Marking International Women’s Day, a number of countries last week asked the caretaker government to remove restrictions on girls’ education and women’s work while neighboring nations insisted on cooperation for stability in Afghanistan.

Afghan and American officials last week accused each other of violating and not fully implementing the Doha Agreement, but Washington evinced an interest in engagement with Kabul despite reservations about its policies.

Talks between Afghan officials and a visiting high-level Pakistani delegation on security and economic issues in Kabul and an American judge’s ruling that relatives of the September 11, 2001 attacks are not entitled to funds from Afghanistan central bank were important news last week, when eight people were killed in separate incidents across the country.

Kabul last week rejected the massing of thousands of Daesh or Islamic State militants near the Tajikistan border.