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Afghan govt delays plan to free Taliban prisoners, puts peace deal at risk According to the decree, only 1,500 Taliban prisoners would be initially released as a gesture of goodwill Current Affairs : Stocks were hammered on Monday and the dollar battered after crisis rate cuts in the United States and New Zealand, and a pile of steps by policymakers overall neglected to stem the defeat in business sectors scared by the expanding aftermath of the coronavirus. US stock prospects plunged 4.8% to hit their downlimit before sunrise in Singapore. The dollar sank over 2% against the yen. Australia’s benchmark stock record fell 7% in the main quarter-hour of exchange before paring a portion of the misfortunes. US rough fell 5% to under $30 per barrel. New Zealand shares were down 3%. Japan’s Nikkei was up 0.1% after an over 6% decay on Friday to the most minimal since late 2016. South Korea’s KOSPI was a shade more fragile. That left MSCI’s record of Asia-Pacific offers outs...

Chinese firm vows to make Gwadar more valuable than Karachi within 7 yrs Pakistan government stamped 23-year income tax holiday and exemptions of sales tax and customs duties for the Gwadar Port and businesses to be set up at Gwadar Free Zone Current Affairs :The Chinese administrators of Pakistan’s key Gwadar Port and its free zone in the anxious Balochistan territory have promised to make the seaside city the single biggest supporter of the nation’s national monetary yield in seven years by making 47,000 employments with new speculations worth billions of dollars, as per a media report. China Overseas Ports Holding Company (COPHC) Gwadar Chairman Zhang Baozhong said this on Tuesday after the Pakistan government stepped 23-year personal assessment occasion and exclusions of offers duty and traditions obligations for the Gwadar Port and organizations to be set up at Gwadar Free Zone, the Express Tribune revealed. It (giving of mandate) is a defining moment for Pakistan’s...

India-born al Qaeda chief of subcontinent killed in US-Afghan raid: Report Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had announced the formation of the AQIS to take the fight to India, Myanmar and Bangladesh in a video message in September 2014 Current Affairs :India-conceived Asim Umar, the head of the Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has been killed during a joint US-Afghan strike on a Taliban fort in Afghanistan’s Helmand territory, Afghan authorities said on Tuesday. Al-Qaeda pioneer Ayman al-Zawahiri had reported the development of the AQIS to take the battle to India, Myanmar and Bangladesh in a video message in September 2014. Umar, who drove the AQIS from its arrangement in 2014, was slaughtered during a joint US-Afghan assault on a Taliban compound in Musa Qala region of Helmand territory on September 23, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security said. It said Omar was murdered alongside six different AQIS individuals, a large portion of them Pakistani...