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KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani will leave for Germany tonight to attend the Munich security conference and brief the world leaders regarding the menace of terrorism. Deputy presidential spokesman, Shah Hussain Murtazvi, told reporters that President Ghani lead a delegation of Afghan officials during his visit to Germany. He said the world leaders will be brief regarding the menace of ...

ISLAMABAD: At least 70 people were killed and 150 of others were wounded in a suicide attack in Sindh province of Pakistan. According to the local government officials, the incident took place earlier this evening in Sehwan city of Sindh. Inspector General Police Sindh A.D. Khawaja confirmed the death of at least 70 people in the attack. He said at ...

Multiple causalities are feared after an explosion took place in the premises of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s shrine in Sehwan on Thursday. Media Reporeted. The explosion took place at the spot where the dhamaal (Sufi ritual) was being performed, within the premises of the shrine, added Media. SSP Jamshoro Tariq Wilayat told Media that initial report suggests that it was a ...

A top leader of the Haqqani terrorist network was killed in an airstrike conducted by the Afghan forces in Southeast of Afghanistan. The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), said the Haqqani leader killed in the operation has been identified as Khan Badshah son of Gulab Shah who was also famous as Faryadi. According to a statement by NDS, ...

The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has reacted to the death of the UAE Ambassador who was injured in an explosion in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani was saddened by the death of Juma Al Kaabi who sustained injuries while during an attack while he was on a humanitarian mission ...

The former Afghan skipper Mohammad Nabi has been placed second by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in One Day International All-Rounder rankings. Shakib Al Hasan secures the first position in the latest ranking table of International Cricket Council (ICC). According to ICC, Hasan has been placed first by having 377 rating while Nabi secures the second spot with 331 rating. ...

KABUL: The NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance is firmly committed to its Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan. The NATO decided to stay in Afghanistan with 13,000 troops to train, assist and advise Afghan security force to defeat terrorism and stabilize the war-torn country. Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance secretary-general, reiterated the commitment during a question-answer session at ...

KABUL: 52 farmers have been kidnapped by Taliban militants in Northern Jawzjan province, said officials Wednesday. “Armed Taliban have Kidnapped 52 famers in Darzab district today,” said Provincial Governor Spokesman Reza Rezai. He said that the farmers went to Chehl Tapa, Chaharband and Chaharsir areas for collecting firewood, when ere abducted by Taliban militant. Taliban took the farmer to Dasht-e-Laili ...

Lahore: A positive vibration may be going through conservative elements of the country as a day after the Islamabad High Court banned Valentine’s Day, a man has been arrested in Lahore for selling sex toys. People in the bustling Chauburji area were ‘bemused’ to see the man waving about his wares in broad daylight. In his own words, Farmanul Haq, 25, ...

German police, in a press release, have refuted reports that a ‘sex mob’ assaulted women in Frankfurt on New Year’s Eve, saying the allegations are “without foundation”. On February 6, Bild, Germany’s most-read newspaper reported that dozens of Arab men – presumed to be refugees – had rampaged through Frankfurt. The paper dubbed them the Fressgass ‘sex mob’. The report ...