Pashtun Times Latest News

KABUL: Hamid Karzai, former president, strongly condemned Wednesday’s suicide attack in Kabul. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in the morning at the Zanbaq crossroad near the Wazir Akbar Khan diplomatic neighborhood which houses the US-led military headquarters, several embassies, the Roshan mobile phone office and a luxury hotel. Around 80 people mostly civilians were killed and 350 more ...

KABUL: At least 80 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and over 350 others received injures in a horrible massive car bombing blast in Kabul, the capital city on Wednesday morning, officials said. The explosion occurred during rush hour at around 8:25 in a diplomatic area—near to Germany, British and Japan embassies. Roads were packed with commuters, when the explosion ...

Wounded Afghan women gesture at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul on May 31, 2017.— AFP AGENCIES: At least 80 people were killed and more than 300 wounded when a massive bomb tore through Kabul’s strongly fortified diplomatic quarter during the Wednesday morning rush hour, Afghan officials said. Health ministry spokesman Waheed Majroh gave the toll, which ...

PESHAWAR – Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan said on Monday that presenting budget without announcing National Finance Commission (NFC) award was a sheer violation of the Constitution. The ANP president while talking to various delegations said that delay in formulation of the new NFC award was questionable. He stressed for coming up with the 8th NFC Award before ...

BY MOHSIN DAWAR: On March 21, young men, affiliated with the Islami Jamiat Talaba, stormed an event organized by the Pashtun students to celebrate Jashan-e-Nawroz, a 5,000 year-old festival. It was our right to do so. We had been granted official permission by the university administration. Pakistan is also one of the signatories of the United Nation’s convention that proclaims ...

KABUL: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chairman Shokrullah Atif Mashal says the agreement regarding bilateral series between Afghanistan and Pakistan cricket tams has not been fully finalized yet. Speaking to reports in Kabul, Mashal said the cricket boards of the two nations have only agreed in words regarding the series. Mashal further added that he visited Pakistan based on persistent ...

KABUL: Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) chief Gulbadin Hekmatyar’s secretary was gunned down in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, a party official said. Qaribur Rahman Syed, HIA spokesman, told local media that the incident happened in the Tajabad area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, early in the morning. Haji Farid was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on his way to house ...

KABUL: More than 100,000 Afghans have been forced to leave their homes because of war in 2017, the United Nations (UN) reported on May 29. Data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) showed that 103,229 people have been displaced since January 2017. The figure marked a 36 percent decrease compared to the same period in ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday expressed his anger at the lack of a response from the government regarding the Saudi Arabia-led 41-nation military alliance headed by former army chief retired Gen Raheel Sharif. “Why don’t we just shut down Parliament?” a visibly frustrated Rabbani said, after his attempts to draw attention to the issue did ...

GERMANY: Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. “The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel told a crowd at an election rally ...