Dubai / Emirates Business The Commercial Compliance & Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in the Department of Economic Development has announced an initiative to establish Consumer Protection Counters within hypermarkets, car showrooms, electronics shops and department stores across Dubai. The counter will serve as the first point of contact for consumers who wish to register complaints regarding their purchases. Mohammed …

  Kabul / AFP A busload of Nepali security guards were among 23 people killed in a string of bombings across Afghanistan on Monday, days after Washington expanded the US military’s authority to strike the insurgents. The Taliban claimed the first attack which killed 14 Nepali security guards working for the Canadian Embassy in Kabul in a massive blast that left …

ISLAMABAD / AP Pakistan and Afghanistan held talks on Monday in Islamabad on last week’s deadly border clashes that killed two Afghan border guards and a Pakistani officer. A statement after the meeting said both nations emphasized the need to create a mechanism for consulting one another on border issues. The two neighbors last week traded several bouts of deadly …