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Check out what’s hot in the region on April 4 as The Nation puts together headlines from members of Asia News Network (ANN). Click to read more:

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called on the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan to do their best to support the Afghan people to create a brighter future when delivering written remarks at the third Foreign Ministers' Meeting among the Neighboring Countries of Afghanistan.

Afghans said the U.S. sanctions on Afghanistan have badly undermined businesses and worsened the country's already fragile economy.

Boy students from grade one to grade 12 and girls from grade one to grade six will attend their classes after the academic year started. However, female students in girls' secondary schools and high schools were denied from attending schools until further notice.

The UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia has been working in close partnership with the CSTO to address the root causes of potential conflict and develop shared solutions to shared problems.

Afghan officials criticized Biden's allocation of Afghan assets to compensate the victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks, saying "stealing from the pocket of the world's poorest country" was unfair.

A Taliban spokesman has criticized U.S. President Joe Biden's decision on splitting 7 billion U.S. dollars belonging to the Afghan central bank after Biden signed an executive order to free frozen Afghan assets in the United States.

The West's withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent decisions of the U.S. government have plunged the Afghan population into a humanitarian crisis, according to historian and author Paul Nuttall.

A cargo flight carrying about 45 tons of pine nuts left the Afghan capital Kabul for China. This is the first flight carrying a shipment of pine nuts to China in 2022.

The Treasury Department on Wednesday issued new licenses to loosen sanctions restrictions on assistance to Afghanistan, following a wave of appeals from aid organizations, lawmakers and others to prevent economic collapse and mass starvation.

The U.S.-led mission fled the Afghanistan front of their so-called "war on terror," leaving nothing but trash, extreme poverty and universal unemployment.

The Biden administration is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers, aid groups and former officials to restart the flow of billions of dollars in aid and cash to Afghanistan, where a humanitarian crisis is growing increasingly perilous.