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Before the political uncertainties generated by the Supreme Court decision on Panama leaks could subside, a fresh public stand off between the civil and military leadership on what is called the Dawn leaks ushered a new challenge to the state system. So much has already been written about the aforementioned controversies and there is no use getting into their details ...

KABUL: NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has said the upcoming meeting of NATO leaders, including US President Donald Trump, will discuss issues like Afghanistan. “It will be a very short meeting but it will be an important meeting because it will be the first visit of the new US President to NATO and to meet allies,” Stoltenberg told a joint ...

April 28th will be a date to remember. Even though some of the great media claim that there were only demonstrations around the country, it is to assume that, by a consensus or not, what happened here was a strike. A general strike, the first in 20 years, one of the biggest in the History of the country, highly cited ...

The recent Turkish air strikes on Kurdish positions in north-eastern Syria killed at least 28 YPG fighters (People Protection Units) armed wing of Kurdish Democratic Union Party or popularly known as PYD and wounded 18 others. Since then clashes broke out and continued between the YPG and Turkish military forces in several areas in northern Syria. Even these attacks were ...

The rent-based economy in Saudi Arabia has shown its limits since the drop of oil prices in 2014. Indeed, the country is potentially explosive: the current fiscal model is not sustainable, the geopolitical environment is increasingly hostile and the country has a rapidly growing population, of which 30% of 16-24 year old find themselves unemployed. The economic choices in the ...

KANDAHAR CITY: A fierce clash that broke out early on Friday morning between Afghan and Pakistani border guards along the Durand Line was still ongoing, officials said. The clash continued between the two sides in Luqman village that falls in the zero point area of the border between the two countries, Kandahar police official Ghorzang Afridi told media. He said ...

KABUL: Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar on Thursday stressed the need for national unity in prevention of foreign interferences in Afghanistan and asked the Taliban to reconcile with the government. Hekmatyar, who arrived in Kabul in a large convoy of vehicles, told a ceremony welcoming him at the Presidential Palace, that his party, the HIA, believed in freedom of expression ...

ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has declined invitations extended by top civil and military officials to visit Pakistan, BBC Urdu reported on Wednesday. Quoting the president’s Deputy Spokesman Dawa Khan Minapal, BBC Urdu reported that Ghani, who met with Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Naveed Mukhtar and National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq over the past week, had rejected their invitations, ...

KABUL: On the head of a long convoy, Amir of the Hezb-I-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) with his supporter on Thursday arrived in capital Kabul after decades in hiding.  Earlier, Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for Nangarhar governor, told media that Hekmatyar left Jalalabad for Kabul early in the morning and traveled by road. A large number of People standing both sides of Kabul-Jalalabad ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has categorically told the Pakistan’s spymaster that Afghanistan would not trust the neighbour until it takes action against the Taliban and other terrorist groups. A well-placed government source confided to local Afghan news Afghanistan handed ISI chief, Naveed Mukhtar, enough evidence of the presence of Taliban and other rebel insurgents in Pakistan. During his day-long visit ...