Afghanistan, Jan. 21 -- The 10th ECO ministers' meeting on disaster risk reduction began in Islamabad without a Kabul delegation, highlighting Afghanistan's absence from regional cooperation discussions.
The 10th meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) ministers opened on Wednesday in Islamabad, Pakistan, focusing on enhancing regional cooperation to reduce disaster risks. The two-day summit brings together ministers and senior officials from ECO member states and partnering regional and international organizations.
Taliban did not send a delegation to the meeting. Official statements from Kabul or Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority explaining the absence have not been released. Images from the event showed a...