The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is prepared to ensure the security of its borders amid growing insecurity in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to a joint statement by the CSTO leaders that was adopted at the organization&s summit in Moscow on Monday and posted on the Kremlin&s website.

&The situation in...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Finland and Sweden joining NATO would probably make ¬ much difference& as the two countries had long participated in the alliance&s military drills, Reuters reported.

&Finland and Sweden, as well as other neutral countries, have been participating in NATO...

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Owners of cotton processing factories in Kandahar said this week that Pakistan is holding back about $30 million dollars owed to the sector in a bid to put them out of business.

According to Sayed Sarwar Amani, the head of the Kandahar Chamber of Commerce and Industries, due to restrictions on banking, Pakistan has failed to pay about $30 million...

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation&s (SCO) anti-terror body Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) representatives came together Monday for the start of a three-day meeting in New Delhi.

Among those attending is a three-member Pakistani delegation that arrived in India on Saturday via the Wagah border.

The situation in Afghanistan and the...

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U.S. authorities on Monday announced the discovery of a major drug smuggling tunnel & running about the length of a six football fields & from Mexico to a warehouse in an industrial area in the U.S.

The secret passage from Tijuana to San Diego featured rail and ventilation systems, electricity and reinforced walls, The Associated Press...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has shown interest in buying oil and gas from Russia and continuing work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project.

Pakistan&s Business Standard reported that this comes after Russian energy giants like Gazprom have been hit by sanctions from the Western countries.

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