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Saturday, 29 July

02:51

Saudi Arabia expanding e-visa system to 12 countries including Turkey, Lebanon and Pakistan "IndyWatch Feed War"

Saudi Arabia expanding e-visa system to 12 countries including Turkey, Lebanon and Pakistan

Under the new system, travellers arriving in Saudi Arabia will no longer require a visa sticker on their passports

MEE staff Fri, 07/28/2023 - 17:51

A woman holds her passport while sitting in a waiting room before boarding a Pakistan International Airlines plane, on 13 September 2021 (AFP)

The government of Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday the expansion of it's e-visa system to include 12 more countries, making it a total of 19 countries.

Under the new system, travellers arriving in Saudi Arabia will no longer require a visa sticker on their passports.

Saudi Arabia will now use a printed e-visa with a QR code instead of visa stickers, the kingdoms General Authority of Civil Aviation announced. This code will encompass all the necessary data and details about travellers.

The e-visa will also serve as the new format for labour, visit, and residency visas. The timetable for phasing out visa stickers in visitor passports will occur from 24 July to 4 September.

The countries include Pakistan; Yemen; Sudan; Uganda; Lebanon; Nepal; Turkey; Sri Lanka; Kenya; Morrocco; Thailand; and Vietnam.

00:16

Hottest ever July signals era of global boiling has begun: UN chief "IndyWatch Feed Economics"

United Nations secretary-general Antnio Guterres calls for tougher targets from major polluters at the upcoming COP28, as high temperatures bring record-breaking extremes in the Philippines, China, India, and Pakistan.

Hottest ever July heralds era of global boiling: UN chief "IndyWatch Feed Economics"

Thursday, 27 July

10:00

Afghanistan: The Wests New Charm Offensive Targets the Taliban "IndyWatch Feed War"

Kit Klarenberg Taliban members stop women protesting for womens rights in Kabul on October 21, 2021. The Taliban violently cracked down on media coverage of a womens rights protest in Kabul on October 21 morning, beating several journalists. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP) (Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images) The policy of...

01:54

US officials to meet Taliban to discuss security and human rights "IndyWatch Feed War"

US officials to meet Taliban to discuss security and human rights

Some experts have said the US needs to engage with the Taliban, including establishing a presence in Kandahar where group's leadership is based

MEE staff Wed, 07/26/2023 - 16:54

Taliban security forces ride horses along the Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul, on 11 May 2023 (AFP)

US officials are set to meet with representatives of the Taliban and "technocratic professionals" from Afghan ministries during a visit to Doha this week, the State Department said on Wednesday, and the discussions will include security, narcotics, and women's rights.

The Biden administrations special representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, and special envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights, Rina Amiri, will travel on Wednesday for visits to Astana, Kazakhstan, and Doha, Qatar.

US and Taliban representatives signed a peace agreement in February 2020. The Taliban, who waged a two-decade insurgency against the US, took control of the country in August 2021, after the USs withdrawal.

In the agreement, the Taliban-run Islamic emirate government committed to counter terrorism threats, establish an inclusive Islamic government and respect human rights, including allowing women to attend school.

In December, the Taliban banned Afghan women from universities and employment at NGOs. The decision brought widespread condemnation from the international community, including from Muslim countries.

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Wednesday, 26 July

20:31

The International in Support the Troops "IndyWatch Feed National"

The second commentary in our ongoing symposium on Katharine Millars Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community. Pinar Bilgin is a professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara. She is the author of The International in Security, Security in the International (Routledge, 2016) and Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective, 2^nd ed. (Routledge, 2019). www.pinarbilgin.me

Support has emerged as the new service following a moment of disconnect with the troops in the UK and the US, we learn from Kate Millars book, Support the Troops. How about other parts of the world that apparently experienced no such disconnect? Support the Troops makes no claim to explain what happens outside the US and UK cases. But I wonder if, by missing aspects of the international, were missing a part of the condition of possibility of all this? In what follows, I will consider the international that has allowed for support to emerge as the new service in some parts of the world, even as others continue to serve and support in some other parts of the world.

Millar acknowledges that StT discoursesalmost uniformlyfail to engage with the international in that Iraqi, Pakistani, and Afghan civilians killed by the wars are rarely mentioned (175). But then, inter-state wars do not exhaust the international. The author also considers the colonial background. These states the US, UK, and others with pervasive support the troops practices, notably Canada and Australiaare also unified by their status as colonial states, she notes (177). Indeed, following Tarak Barkawis argument in Soldiers of Empire, colonial military relations have shaped post-colonial military relations. Yet again, post-/colonial relations do not exhaust the international.

The international in Support the Troops can also be located in post-World War II relations between Europe and non-Europe. When I write Europe, I refer to Western Europe and North America as the geographies that are put at the centre by those who are carriers of this particular w...