Pakistan has announced a financial-relief package of some $6 billion and cut its benchmark interest rate for the second time in a week in an effort to counter the divesting effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy.
Afghanistan’s health minister has cited estimates suggesting most of Afghanistan’s estimated 32 million population might contract the coronavirus over the next five months.
The U.S. State Department has announced a $1 billion reduction in aid to Afghanistan and a review of the scope of its cooperation with the country.
A village in northwestern Pakistan is under lockdown after a 50-year-old man became the first recorded coronavirus-related fatality in the country. S
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has completed an urgent visit to Kabul without saying whether he was able to broker an agreement between Afghanistan's quarreling political leaders.
Pakistan has deployed the military to aid civilian authorities in shutting down the country of 220 million to prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak as confirmed cases of the potentially deadly disease increased to more than 850.
The Taliban has been transformed from an international pariah into a legitimate force in Afghanistan.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Kabul to try to jump-start a U.S. peace deal signed last month with the Taliban, a trip that comes amid a coronavirus pandemic.
Romania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Afghanistan have all reported their first deaths from the novel coronavirus as the global tally reached nearly 12,000.
A major breakthrough in China's three-month epidemiological battle against the coronavirus came on March 18 when no local infections were reported.
A Pakistani doctor who screened suspected coronavirus patients has died after testing positive for the virus, highlighting the danger to physicians who have threatened to strike unless access to protection equipment improves.
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