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A student arrested in the Mashal Khan lynching case on Monday has said that the administration of Abdul Wali Khan University asked him to testify against the deceased. The accused, Wajahat, admitted that he was part of the mob which lynched the 23-year-old Mardan university student. His statement comes hours after Abdullah, a student who survived despite being beaten violently, ...

PESHAWAR: A very important witness in Mashal Khan lynching case, Abdullah, recorded his statement in front of police and court today. Mashal, a student of Mardan’s Abdul Wali Khan University, was torched to death by a mob over accusations of blasphemy on Thursday. Abdullah, who was also accused of blasphemy in a university notice, told the court that neither he ...

ISLAMABAD: The director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, on Monday announced that Ehsanullah Ehsan, former spokesperson of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and a senior leader of the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, had turned himself in to Pakistan’s security agencies. “The people, the state and the institutions of Pakistan have made considerable progress in the betterment of the country’s ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Pakistan had demanded recognition of Durand Line as the formal international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan during his presidency. Speaking during in a Kabul, Karzai said Pakistan had also demanded a reduction in bilateral ties between Kabul and New Delhi. He said the demands were made by the then Pakistani President ...

EDITORIAL: The United States military dropped Thursday the largest “non-nuclear” bomb apparently targeting the hideouts of the Daesh terrorist group in the eastern Nangarhar province, according to both US and Afghan officials. The 10-ton ‘Mother of All Bombs’ was dropped from transport airplane in Achin district. A spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani has said that the government was aware of ...

KABUL: The United States is to turn Afghanistan into a polygon for testing its nuclear and other deadly weapons, said a political and military analyst. The Thursday’s US aerial attack on a village in Nangarhar province that a 10-ton non-nuclear bomb was apparently dropped on the caves of the Daesh terrorist group has raised huge criticisms in the country. “The ...

د مردان په عبدالولي خان پوهنتون کې د زيارت په ورځ د مذهب د سپکاري په تور وژل شوی زده کوونکی په پلارني کلي زېده صوابۍ کې خاورو ته سپارل شوی دی. مشال خان د خپل پوهنتون ملګرو په وهلو ټکولو وژلې دی، پلار محمداقبال اقبال يې د زوي د وژلو په غبرګون کې وي او ای ډيوه ته د ...

 PESHAWAR: A First Information Report (FIR) was registered by police on Friday against members of a lynch mob that brutally assaulted two university students ─ killing one and injuring another ─ over alleged blasphemy in Mardan a day earlier. The FIR has been lodged in Sheikh Maltoon police station against 20 suspects, of whom eight have been arrested, Mardan District ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai angrily reacted at the US forces move for dropping ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on the hideouts of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan. “I vehemently and in strongest words condemn the dropping of the latest weapon, the largest non-nuclear #bomb, on Afghanistan by US military,” Karzai said ...

WASHINGOTN: US forces dropped a huge GBU-43 bomb on a series of caves fighters loyal to Islamic State-Khorasan or ISIS-K group used in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday, the military said. The bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb with the US forces, was used in Achin district as part of ongoing efforts to defeat the ISIS-K in Afghanistan, the US Central ...