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BERLIN: More than 250 Turkish diplomats, government employees and their family members have filed for political asylum in Germany, Berlin said on Monday, amid a bitter row between the two Nato allies. Germany’s interior ministry said 151 of the asylum applications came from Turks holding diplomatic passports while the other 111 were from people with passports issued to other government ...

PESHAWAR: Canada’s prime minister has announced that Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai will address his country’s Parliament and receive the honorary citizenship bestowed upon her in 2014. Justin Trudeau says the 19-year-old activist will become the youngest person to address the body when she visits April 12. Trudeau said on Monday that he and Yousafzai will also discuss empowering girls through ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) allegedly arranged a secret meeting in January between an American businessman supporting Trump and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and the incoming president, The Washington Post reported on Monday. Citing United States (US), European and Arab officials, the ...

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics to include the Kalasha religion on the national census form prior to the second phase of the exercise starting April 25. A two-judge bench of the PHC announced the order while hearing a writ petition filed by members of the Kalash community. The government was represented ...

KABUL: The spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MoCI), Musafir Qoqandi has said that Indian government has promised to provide technical assistance to build a research and training center for the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Kabul. The center would provide valuable training to the concerned people on rules and regulations of the WTO. According to Qoqandi, the ...

The Durand Line is not a border that officially divides two countries but it is merely a fictive line that was signed under the duress. The 2,430-kilometer long Durand Line was signed in 1893 as a non-popular agreement between Sir Mortimer Durand, a diplomat and civil servant of British India and the Afghan king, Abdur Rahman Khan. The line cuts ...

KABUL: The Afghan government reacted at Moscow’s stance regarding the Taliban demands for the full withdrawal of the foreign forces from the country. Presidential spokesman Shah Hussain Murtazawi told reporters that no one has the right to dictate terms or issue instructions regarding the presence of the foreign forces in the country. He said the issue relates to the Afghan ...

There were five friends somewhere in one of the provinces of Pakistan. They all were trying to get employment in the government sector, owing to the fact that there is no other source of employment in that province. They were highly educated and enlightened, however they were unemployed. Eventually two of them got a reputable job in the government sector ...

KABUL: Russia has endorsed the Taliban militants group’s call for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan, it has been reported. The endorsement was reportedly made by Russia’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov during an interview. “Of course it’s justified” for the Taliban to oppose the foreign military presence, Kabul was quoted as saying by Bloomberg. Kabulov further ...

EDITORIAL BY KADWAL, KABUL: A very pathetic terrorist attack in Pakistan made the Afghan people grieved. In a powerful car bomb that ripped through a busy market in Parachinar area of the Kurram Agency, left at least 25 civilians martyred while scores of others were wounded Friday, according to Pakistani media reports. The attack that was claimed by a Pakistani ...