OIC agriculture ministers to announce future plans for food security on Thursday

Jeddah (IINA) – The ministers of agriculture in the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will announce on Thursday their future plans for food security and agricultural development in the Islamic world during the meetings of the founding general assembly of Islamic Organization for Food Security and 7th Islamic Ministerial Conference for Food Security and Agricultural Development in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.
OIC Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Ambassador Hameed Opeloyeru said that the ministers will discuss a number of issues including the projects, programs and challenges resulting from water scarcity in the OIC member states.
The ambassador pointed out that the agriculture ministers will adopt the formation of the Executive Council of the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) and elect the director general. The will also discuss the development of short and long-term programs towards the achievement of food security in the OIC countries, through the establishment of local and regional food reserves.
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Indian Muslims’ experience can be model for others: VP Ansari

Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari. Image from siasat

New Delhi, (IINA) – Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said the experience of the Indian Muslim minority community living in a secular polity having a composite culture could be a model for others to emulate, Daijiworld Indian news reported.
"Thinking minds should look beyond questions of identity and dignity in a defensive mode and explore how both can be furthered in a changing India and a changing world," Ansari said, while releasing a book "Fikr" brought out by the National Institute of Faith Leadership.
"The Indian experience of a large Muslim minority living in secular polity having a composite culture could even be a model for others to emulate," he said.
He said the book was an effort to remove widespread prejudices about Islam as a faith and Muslims as a people. 
 "This would necessitate sustained and candid interaction with fellow citizens without a syndrome of superiority or inferiority and can be fruitful only in the actual implementation of the principles of justice, equality and fraternity," he said.
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Afghan Taliban confirm leaders' visit to Pakistan

Members of Afghan Taliban (Image from Internet)

Islamabad (IINA) – The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday confirmed a visit of its leaders to Pakistan, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported.
A three-member delegation arrived in Islamabad from its Qatar-based office on Monday to discuss with Pakistan the possibility of the peace talks, diplomatic and official sources said.
"Since the Afghan people have close relations, long border and commercial transactions with neighboring country Pakistan and a large number of our countrymen are living there as refugees. Therefore, the Political Office of the Islamic Emirate has decided to send a high level delegation to Islamabad," the Taliban Qatar office said.
"The esteemed leader of Islamic Emirate has instructed the delegation to discuss issues regarding Afghan refugees, some problems about frontier areas and particularly to discuss the release of Mullah Bradar Akhund and some other prisoners with the officials of the government of Pakistan."
Mullah Baradar, the former second-in-command in the Taliban hierarchy, was arrested in Karachi in 2010, and the Taliban said he has not yet been freed.
Pakistan said that Baradar had been released along with some 50 senior Taliban leaders in 2013 at the request of then Afghan Hamid Karzai.
The visit to Pakistan "would be in the interest of both countries and would have fruitful results", a Taliban statement said.
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