KABUL (AFP) – Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura met President Hamid Karzai during a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday in which he urged better relations with Pakistan.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week launched a $1.2 billion project to upgrade Sri Lanka’s sole refinery at Sapugaskande, outside Colombo, the island nation’s capital.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian diplomat said that the mega project of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline would soon be undertaken.