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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Shrif has ordered for an immediate opening of the routes located along the Durand Line connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to a statement released by the Prime Minister House of Pakistan, the decision to reopen the routes was taken as a gesture of goodwill. The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal confirmed that ...

Mutrib Mashukhel sets up academy to impart training of string instrument Mutrib Mashukhel plays rabab at his academy in Peshawar.  PESHAWAR: Noted musician and singer Mutrib Mashukhel has established an academy for teaching intricacies of rabab playing at Achini Chowk on Ring Road in Peshawar to save the oldest musical instrument from being extinct. Irfan Khalil, a local leader of ...

KABUL: The export of Kinnow to Afghanistan was badly affected due to the month long closure of crossing points on the Durand Line allowing the export target of 300,000 tonnes to be missed this year, a media report said on Saturday. Ahmad Jawad, chairman of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Regional Standing Committee on Horticulture ...

Pakistan is becoming more and more dangerous both for Muslims and non-Muslims. The most important for a person is survival, why to live in a place where there is a threat to your survival. If the blasphemy law is not reviewed by the state it will give birth to severe problems. The people of Pakistan are adopting extremist mindset, if ...

When we look back at our history, almost every country in the world has experienced some form of foreign occupation, colonization, massive violence and bloodshed simply based on either regional, religion, ethnic or racial conflict. And while most of the leaders who’ve led such warfare and occupations, have been violent and tyrannical. But there have also been a few, very ...

KABUL: Pakistan’s new ambassador to United States, Aizaz Chaudhry has said that closure of crossing points with Afghanistan is a temporary decision which is a part of counter-terrorism strategy to block infiltration of terrorists. He said: “This is border management, necessary to combat terrorists.” Speaking to reporters in Washington D.C., Chaudhry called on Kabul’s government to jointly manage the British-era ...

KABUL: Aziz Khanzada, 21, is second year medicine student of Kandahar University. He, like many other Afghans, has arrived in Kabul few days ago to celebrate the New Year with his fiancé. “I’ve done shopping for myself, my family and for my fiancé, but have not seen any big impact of the closed borders on the market prices,” said Khanzada. ...

Providing cover to its wrong deeds of supporting and harboring militancy, the government of Pakistan has turned every available source to deceive the regional and beyond regional countries and show that the country is going through tough time. The series of attacks in Pakistan was an act to emotionally earn trust and sympathy of the global community. Pakistan has gone ...

KABUL: The former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in a special Interview with Ariana News said US wants to use Afghanistan as substrate to shift terrorism into Russia. He said, “US wants to expand terrorism into Russia by using Afghanistan as substrate.” Further he went on and demanded the Afghan government to change its foreign relations with the countries that means US ...

KABUL: Russia has pledged to support the Afghan government police of durable peace and stability in the war-hit country, the National Security Council (NSC) said on Saturday. In a press release issued here, the NSC said that Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed the commitment at a meeting with National Security Advisor, Mohammad Haneef Atmar in Moscow. During the meeting, ...