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KABUL: The US president Trump administration has taken the initiative to frame a new policy with an aim of not allowing terrorist outfits to use Afghanistan and Pakistan’s soil for launching terrorist attacks in any part of the world, ANI reported. The US National Security Adviser Gen. McMaster has said that the new US policy would be applied to both ...

ISLAMABAD: The Afghan ambassador has called for a tension-free relationship between Kabul and Islamabad, saying both sides should learn from past mistakes to normalise their ties. “There had been a lot of mistakes over the past one year and both have learnt a lot,” Dr. Omar Zakhilwal said in an interview published on Monday. He called 2016 the worst year ...

Sindhi of all faiths and paths, reside in all continents. There are Sindhi that are historically submerged in some nations, like in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sindhi who are now indigenized there with the tribe or clan name Al-Sindi. Some Sindhi families are submerged in Java and Sumatra islands; and some are submerged in Russia, living in Moscow having combination ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani conferred the high state Mir Masjedi Khan medal on NATO special operations commander in Afghanistan. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the medal was conferred on Major General Scott Howell during a ceremony organized in the presidential palace on Sunday evening. President Ghani also conferred the high state Syed Jamaluddin Afghan medal on ...

EDITORIAL: The recent remark of the US officials regarding Pakistan-based terrorists is at somehow projecting America’s interest in bringing peace in Afghanistan by eliminating their (militants) hideouts in Pakistan soil. A top US spymaster has said that Pakistan-based terrorists groups are “planning to attack” both India and Afghanistan. Islamabad has failed to curb militants and terrorists in Pakistan, Daniel Coats, ...

Last Monday, Iranian General Mohammad Albaqiri, warned Pakistan of attack inside her territory to destroy what he called terrorist sanctuaries. The threat came about two weeks after Jaish ul-Adl (Army of Justice), a Sunni militant organisation, with a history of launching attacks in Siestan-Balochistan of Iran, accepted the responsibility of killing ten Iranian border guards in an attack carried out ...

WASHINGTON: The much-anticipated Af-Pak policy of President Donald Trump is likely to be announced after the NATO summit in Brussels later this month when he would consult allies, the White House hinted on Friday. “The president has not made a decision yet on a course of action. What we have done, which is what we have done in many cases, ...

BALOCHISTAN: At least 10 labourers were killed in Balochistan’s Gwadar district on Saturday as unidentified assailants opened fire at the construction site where they were working, Levies sources said. Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire on a group of labourers working at a road in Gwadar’s Pishgan area, killing eight of them on the spot, Levies sources confirmed. Key ...

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Religious Affairs on Wednesday unanimously approved the Ehtram-e-Ramazan (Amendment) Bill, 2017 under which fine for the hotel owners – violating the Ehtram-e-Ramazan Ordinance, 1981 – has been increased from Rs500 to Rs25,000. People who will smoke or eat openly during Ramazan will be fined Rs500 along with 3-month imprisonment. TV channels or cinema houses that ...

Security officials examine the site of the bomb attack in Mastung district on Friday. Officials of the bomb disposal squad said it was a suicide attack.— AFP BALOCHISTAN: : At least 26 people were killed and 40 others, including Senate Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, suffered injuries in a suicide attack on his convoy in the Mastung area, some ...