March 2023

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6. Donors have fulfilled only 40pc of flood pledges: UN

• The UN said on Monday that so far donors have fulfilled only 40 per cent of the pledges they made at an international conference early this year to help the victims of last year`s floods in Pakistan.
• `Missing because people have not given it,` said UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric when asked at a news briefing in New York why most of the money pledged in January was still missing. `If the appeal is only 40pc funded, by my maths, that means we still need 60pc,` he said. `Those countries that have the money have not stepped up.
• In January, international donors met in Geneva and committed over $9bn to help Pakistan recover from floods last year.
• Responding to a question about journalist Arshad Sharif`s murder in Kenya, spokesperson Dujarric said the UN called for a transparent investigation, but `did not make a formal request to keep the UN informed`


7. S. Korean firms to pay victims of Japan`s forced labour

• South Korea announced plans on March 6, 2023 to compensate victims of Japan`s forced wartime labour, aiming to end a `vicious cycle` in the Asian powers` relations and boost ties to counter the nuclear-armed North.
• Japan and the United States immediately welcomed the announcement, but victims` groups said it fell far short of their demand for a full apology from Tokyo and direct compensation from the Japanese companies involved.
• Seoul and Tokyo have ramped up security cooperation in the face of growing threats from Kim Jong UN`s North Korea, which is expanding its nuclear weapons programme in defiance of UN sanctions


8. Ukraine seeks US cluster bombs to adapt for drone use

• Ukraine has broadened a request for controversial cluster bombs from the United States to include a weapon that it wants to cannibalise to drop the anti armor bomblets it contains on Russian forces from drones, according to two US lawmakers.
• Kyiv has urged members of Congress to press the White House to approve sending the weapons but it is by no means certain that the Biden administration will sign off on that. Cluster munitions, banned by more than 120 countries, normally release large numbers of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area, threatening civilians.
• Ukraine is seeking the MK-20, an air delivered cluster bomb, to release its individual explosives from drones, said US Representatives Jason Crow and Adam Smith, who both serve on the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. That is in addition to 155mm artillery cluster shells that Ukraine already has requested, they said


9. Women still barred as Afghan varsities reopen for men

• Afghan universities reopened on March 6, 2023 after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a `heartbreaking` ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force.
• The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021 and has sparked global outrage including across the Muslim world.
• `It`s heartbreaking to see boys going to the university while we have to stay at home, said Rahela, 22, from the central province of Ghor.
• `This is gender discrimination against girls, because Islam allows us to pursue higher education. Nobody should stop us from learning


10. Pakistan Super League Guptill-inspired Gladiators stay alive with thrilling victory over Kings

• The stands were empty and the atmosphere was dull at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on March 6, 2023. After all, much wasn`t expected from the fixture featuring Quetta Gladiators and Karachi Kings the bottom-two teams of the HBL Pakistan Super League vying for survival. After the Kings had dragged themselves to a fighting total of 164-6, the Gladiators` chase was going nowhere as they looked into certain elimination.
• But opener Martin Guptill with the Gladiators captain Sarfraz Ahmed on the other end had different ideas. With 65 runs needed off the last 27 balls, Guptill went deep into his crease to club Kings pacer Mohammad Amir over midwicket for six.
• The New Zealander smashed James Fuller for another humongous six to bring up his 50 and plundered the medium-pacer for three boundaries before finishing off the 17th over with six more

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