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Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long held ambitious to replace Kemal Ataturk (founder of the Republic of Turkey) as the country’s most revered leader, distancing himself from the founder’s ideals and emphasizing Turkey’s Ottoman and Islamic heritage over its more recent history. The following are most important changes, Ataturk westernized Turkey society, Erdogan view the west and its socio ...

Security forces arrested the father and younger brother of the suicide bomber in Libya while British police arrest a seventh suspect. TRTWORLD: More arrests have been made in connection with the deadly suicide bomb attack at a concert venue in Manchester. The attack was claimed by Daesh. At least 22 people were killed and dozens others wounded when a suicide ...

GERMANY: An Afghan asylum seeker has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of having links with the Taliban group in Afghanistan. A statement by Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office in a statement said the detained asylum seeker has been identified as Oamid N and was arrested on Friday. The statement further added that the asylum seeker is accused of killing a ...

Despite the US signing a bilateral security and defence pact with Afghanistan in 2014, civilian casualties are on the rise, the death rate of Afghan security forces is at an all time high, and terrorism has sharply increased. President Trump is expected to make a decision on a proposal to strengthen US military presence in Afghanistan and send between 3,000 ...

KABUL: The NATO Secretary General said Wednesday of increasing more troops to Afghanistan in order to overcome the stalemate and to further enhance capabilities of Afghan special forces is expected to be taken in the month of June. “We have recently completed our regular review of our training mission. And our military commanders have asked for a few thousand more ...

KARACHI: Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan on Sunday criticised the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government for backtracking on its pledge to merge the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. “The federal cabinet has approved the recommendations — that enjoy a broad political consensus — of the FATA Reforms Committee, but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is continuously lying about ...

The savagely violent murder of Mashal Khan on April 13 is a grim reminder of our consistency in aversion for critical minds and free thinking from olden times down to present day. This lynching is not a unique episode in human history. Socrates (470-399 BC), the classical Greek Philosopher was accused of corrupting minds of youths and impiety. He preferred ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government plans to step up its crackdown on social media activists over purported criticism against Pakistan army despite strong criticism by opposition parties and human rights groups. According to a government’s source, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has finalized a list of 200 people who are likely to be questioned or detained for their alleged anti-army tweets, posts on popular social ...

KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed regrets over the death of politician Abdul Rahim Mandokhil, calling him a “tireless political combatant”. “With regrets, I learned that a great political, social and cultural figure of Pakhtoonkhwa, and vice president of the Pakhtoonkhwa National Awwami Party, Abdul Rahim Mandokhil passed away due to illness,” Karzai was quoted as saying by a statement. ...

Quetta: Former Senator and sitting Member of National Assembly (MNA) of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Abdul Rahim Mandokhail passed away here after brief illness. The deceased lawmaker was Deputy Chairman of Achakzai-led Pashtun nationalist party, PkMAP. He was elected as MNA from NA-260 Quetta-cum-Chaghi in 2013 elections. His funeral prayer will be offered in his ancestral Jhoke. Born on ...