News: An Afghanistan with a nominal, contested government unable to control its territory cannot mount the argument about sovereignty. Until such a government emerges in that country, Pakistan will have to defend itself, even if it means striking targets inside Afghanistan.

On July 2, Joe Biden, the US president was pressed with series of questions during a press conference by reporters on US troops’ withdrawal from Bagram Airbase. Biden seemed to be extremely irritated by these questions and told them: “I’m not going to answer any more questions about Afghanistan.

After the NATO summit, President Erdogan used the following statements in his speech; “The situation the World is facing has shown the importance of the spirit of alliance and solidarity, upon which NATO was built. The role and the responsibility of the NATO in the preservation of global stability has increased. Member states should stick by the founding principles and strengthen the Alliance.

As we entered 2021, there were 82.4 million people around the world displaced by conflict or persecution. Thirty million of those are refugees, the rest are displaced within their own country (48 million) or asylum-seekers (4.1 million), according to UNHCR’s latest report. Nearly half of these forcibly displaced people are children. [Al Jazeera, 20 Jun 2021]