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A virulent debate has been going on in Pakistan about the implementation of the 20 points National Action Plan (NAP)  against religious extremism and terrorism since its inception on December 24, 2014. The opposition political parties have been blaming the government of lacking the required political will and commitment for taking the short term and long term measures for eradicating ...

KABUL: The top US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has said the Taliban and Haqqani network leaders are enjoying freedom of action within Pakistan safe havens. Gen. Nicholson is the commander of the US forces and the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan. “The Taliban and Haqqani network are the greatest threats to security in Afghanistan. Their senior leaders ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and US President Donald Trump discussed issues of mutual interest during a phone conversation earlier tonight. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said the two leaders discussed counter-terrorism and other issues, including Afghanistan and regional security as well economy. “President Ashraf Ghani and President Donald Trump discussed counter terrorism, Afghanistan and regional security, economy ...

 پُښتَنه ټولَنه کښې ډیرکِردارونه دی چې زَمونږ اَمروزه ژوَند دَ هغوۍ نه بغیر نیمګړۍ ښکاری. دا کِردارونه کَه په یو پلَو زمونږ ټولنیز ژوند له ترتیب ورکوی نو په بل پلَو زمونږ د شریک ژوند ښایست هم سیوا کوی. په دې کِردارونو که یو نوم د نائی هم دې. نائی د ټولنې یو ډیر مهم کردار وو (او په ډیرو ...

KABUL: Hamid Karzai, the former president, “strongly” condemned Tuesday’s suicide attack in Kabul, calling it against all human and Islamic principle carried out by the enemies of Afghanistan. A man on foot detonated his explosives at the car park of the Supreme Court in a rush hour when the officials were leaving. More than 20 people all reportedly civilians were ...

CHARSADDA: Awami National Party (ANP) president Asfandyar Wali Khan has warned that his party will stage a sit-in in Islamabad if Fata (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) is not merged with Khyber Pakht­unkhwa province before March 12. Speaking at a public gathering here on Tuesday, he demanded that the federal government announce a decision on the merger of Fata with KP ...

کوهاټ په خيبر پختونخوا کښې دافغان کډوالو ريس ښاغلې ډاکټر عبدالحميد جليلي وايي چې په پاکستان کښې ميشت افغان کډوال بيرته خپل هيواد ته ستنيدل ورته په ګټه تممېدلې شي،که چيرې کډوال نور هم په کالونو راهسې دلته په پاکستان کښې ميشت پاتې شي نو بيا هم د دوې د نسلونو راتلونکې روښانه کيدلې نشي ،او ددوې کاميابي يوازې خپل ...

Saudi police arrested an apparently “mentally disturbed” man who tried to set himself on fire at Islam’s holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. The man, in his 40s and a Saudi citizen, “poured petrol on himself and tried to set it alight,” Grand Mosque police spokesman Major Sameh al-Salami said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YECyoS7E0s “His behaviour ...

Ajmal Khattak, the veteran Pashtun politician, poet, writer and former president of Awami National Party, died in penury on 7 February 2010, after six decades of unremitting political struggle in Pakistan for the political and economic autonomy of the Pashtun people, sliced off by the British-Indian Empire in 1893 from Afghanistan.  Ajmal Khattak was politically active during his student life. ...

که څه هم زما عمر او علم دومره نه دی چې زه د اجمل خټک په شاعرۍ, ژوند او سياست علمي او تحقيقي ليکنه وکړم خ زما په ژوند کې اجمل خټک ړومبی سړی دی چې زما ژوند يې بدل کړی, د هغه کتاب او شاعرۍ زه دې ته اړ کړې يم چې هر څه ته فکر وکړم, تاريخ مطالعه ...