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Local people stage rally in Swabi on Thursday to express solidarity with Mashal Khan. Dawn SWABI: The residents of Mashal Khan’s native town, Zaida, on Thursday gathered at the grave of the Abdul Wali Khan University student lynched by a mob over the alleged blasphemy lately and apologised to the deceased and his family for failing to ‘stand with them ...

ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties on Friday ramped up the pressure against the ruling PML-N and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, demanding the premier’s resignation with one voice and protesting yesterday’s Supreme Court verdict on Panamagate in Parliament. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), PPP and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) each held press conferences following a meeting of opposition parties in Islamabad. PTI Chairman Imran Khan himself ...

FRANCE: Paris police say a gunman has killed a police officer and wounded another before being killed himself in an attack on the Champs-Elysees shopping district. Paris police spokeswoman Johanna Primevert told The Associated Press that the attacker targeted police guarding the area near the Franklin Roosevelt subway station Thursday night at the center of the avenue popular with tourists. ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told Trump that  he has commuted an immense atrocity against the Afghan people. “My message to President Donald Trump today is that he has committed an immense atrocity against the Afghan people,” He said in a Twitter post. Karzai further added that Trump has committed atrocity againstthe fellow Afghans, against fellow human ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that Russia has the right to have relations with the Taliban group as he has adopted a hard stance against the United States, specifically after the MOAB bombing o ISIS hideouts in Achin district of Nangarhar. During an exclusive interview with the Voice of America’s Afghanistan service, Karzai insisted that the ...

Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan lecturer and Mashal Khan’s teacher Ziaullah Hamdard apologised to the nation and the deceased’s parents for failing to save the student from the violent mob and said that Mashal was not even given the chance to clear his name. “He [Mashal] was not even given the chance to prove his innocence,” he lamented. “They [mob] were in front of ...

The events of late 1970s ensued mass exodus of Afghans to the neighboring countries. The greater portion of refugee migration of large displacement caused by Russian invasion of 1979 took place to Pakistan. Afghans continued to seek refuge in Pakistan throughout 80s as war intensified between the Pakistan based Mujahedeen groups and Russian invaders partnering communist regime of Kabul. Early ...

OPINION: It is very shameful act that one Afghan to be killed by another, and the most disgraceful is to claim responsibility for the killing in a manner of pride instead of shame. The Afghan masses during more than three decades of war have gone through many ups and downs. But the last 16 years have been proved metal for ...

A journey of nations beyond federalism Mohammad Ali Jinnah (M. A. Jinnah), joined hands of Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi (M.K. Gandhi) in the movement for the provincial autonomy in united India during British Raj. Pakistan was realized formally as a viable idea after 1945. The idea of Pakistan, in fact, is wrongly associated with Dr. Alama Iqbal. Dr. Iqbal basically ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Is Blasphemy punishable by Death in Islam? Is the self-styled lynching not un-Quanic and un-Prophetic? Is Islam the monopoly of a few self-imposed demagogues only? Are the country’s laws are based on Sharia law and apparatus? Have the misuse of religion not morphed into metastasizing religious extremism and their violent followers? Is it not abused to persecute minorities and ...