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دھشت گردی کے خلاف پے درپے آپریشنوں کے باوجود پاکستان کی انسداد دھشت گرد پالیسیوں کو بین الاقوامی سطع پر قبولیت اور پزیرائی نہیں مل رہی ہے۔ الٹا اس سلسلے میں پاکستان پر بیرونی دباؤ میں اضافہ ھو رہا ہے ۔ اس صورتحال پر سوچنے اور سنجیدہ غوروحوض کی ضرورت ہے ۔ ان سطور میں بار بار اس جانب توجہ ...

An unknown number of people in Pakistan have been disappeared, presumably by state agents working with the intelligence agencies of Pakistan. Many of them are Baluch nationalists but the disappeared persons also include people from other ethnic groups. Some them have never been reported upon by media in Pakistan. I write in support of one of such never reported on ...

Actor Veena Malik has reportedly filed for divorce from her husband of three years. While her husband, Asad Khattak, was on a trip to the US earlier this year, Veena decided she wanted to leave him. The Gali Gali Chor Hai star filed for divorce on January 30 in Dubai. “There were issues between Veena and Asad but noone knew about ...

An influential US Congressman yesterday introduced a strongly worded bill in Congress to declare “untrustworthy ally” Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism. “Not only is Pakistan an untrustworthy ally, Islamabad has also aided and abetted enemies of the United States for years,” said Congressman Ted Poe, who is Chair of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism. “From harboring Osama bin Laden ...

KABUL: The United Nations Security Council in its latest report on the situation in Afghanistan has said that the government of Afghanistan continued to face significant political, economic and security challenges. The President Ashraf Ghani, and the Chief Executive, Abdullah Abdullah, continued to engage in bilateral discussion to improve their working relationship, and the report also added that several key ...

After its closure in February, the Pak-Afghan border was reopened for two days this week to let thousands of stranded children, women and men on both sides of the border go to their homes. Many trucks and containers loaded with all sorts of goods, some of them perishable, could also proceed to their destinations. The sudden and unilateral closure of ...

The commander of the United States Central Command General Joseph L. Votel has said the Pakistani military and security services have not taken lasting actions against the notorious Haqqani terrorist network inside its soil so far. In his statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Votel said “Pakistan remains a critical partner in the counter-terrorism fight. Twenty U.S-designated terrorist ...

Pakistan accounts for 612 of over 1,400 cases of forced marriage reported in Britain last year, according to data released on Thursday, a number which campaigners say is the “tip of the iceberg” as the practice remains largely hidden in the United Kingdom. Britain’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) recorded 1,428 cases in 2016 ─ a small increase on 2015’s figure ...

HEIDELBERG: In the given circumstances, Pakistan could not be a good neighbor to Afghanistan; Pakistan-Afghanistan relations expert and Ph.D scholar, Wahid Watanyar argues in an exclusive interview with The Pashtun Times. THE PASHTUN TIMES

KABUL: Alarm bells have to be ringed in the security agencies after the recent Kabul bloodbath in which over 30 people were killed and more than 76 others received injures. This furious act has directly put forward that this time Pakistani-backed militants would put in exercise every stone to target Afghan masses, especially the Afghan security personnel across the country. ...