Ahead of his visit to China, United States State Secretary Antony Blinken spoke with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa on Saturday.
According to official sources, the convoy was heading to the Minza area in the South Waziristan district when it was attacked. After the suicide attack, the area was cordoned off.
The Indian delegation was led by Vipul, Joint Secretary(Gulf), Ministry of External Affairs. Ambassador Sameeh Essa Johar Hayat, Assistant Foreign Minister for Asia Affairs of Kuwait (AFM), headed the Kuwaiti delegation. Ambassadors from both countries as well as officials from other Mini
PM Kishida will leave next week on the first multicountry trip to Africa by a Japanese leader since 2014. His four stops - Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique - are all part of the Global South, a loosely defined collection of over 100 developing nations.
Taking to Twitter, Blinken said, "Great meeting with my friend @MofaJapan_en Foreign Minister Hayashi as Japan leads the @G7 in 2023. We stand united with Japan and our G7 partners to promote peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world."
The statement said, "There can be no impunity for war crimes and other atrocities such as Russia's attacks against civilians and critical civilian infrastructure."
On Tuesday, provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Khan ordered an inquiry to check the bulletproof jackets and helmets. He further said that jammers were being installed on all armoured personnel carriers (APCs) to protect the vehicles from bomb attacks, as per the news report.
While addressing the reporters following the meeting with China's Qin gang, Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said that he sought consular access to the Japanese citizen and urged China to provide transparency in the judicial process.
"Our operation is underway and hundreds of acres of land has been cleared of poppy in different districts," said Hayatullah Rouhani, head of the counter narcotics department of Herat, as quoted by TOLO News.
Batra and her partner G Sathiyan lost 3-2 (9-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-5, 7-11) in the mixed doubles quarter-finals to Japan's Tomokazu Harimoto and Hina Hayata, both world championships silver medallists.