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The United States has awarded a contract worth $9.3 million support of the Afghan Air Force, the US Department of Defense (DoD) said. “AAI Corp., doing business as Textron Systems, Hunt Valley, Maryland, has been awarded a $9,352,070 predominantly firm-fixed-price contract for contractor logistics support and maintenance training services,” according to a press release by DoD. The statement further adds ...

Hollywood gears up for its most prestigious awards night, The Academy Awards on February 26 as #OscarNoms are revealed. REUTERS: Romantic musical La La Land is the movie to beat at the Academy Awards after earning 14 nominations in a diverse list that silenced the #OscarsSoWhite controversy of the last two years. Whereas last year all 20 acting nominees were ...

KABUL: The United States would consider sending more troops to Afghanistan in a bid to prevent further deterioration of the security of the country. The commitment was reportedly made during a telephone conversation between President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Donald Trump in December last year when he was the president-elect of the United States. Afghan officials privy of the development ...

KABUL: The Taliban militants group has issued an open letter to the US President Donald Trump, urging the new US leader to end the ongoing war in Afghanistan. The group which is accused of incurring the most casualties to the civilians admits in its letter that the 15 year war has caused human and material losses to both sides. Taliban ...

سوشل میڈیا پر حالیہ کریک ڈاؤن پر جاری بحث کے تناظر میں کئ معاشرتی مسائل سامنے آرہے ھیں ۔ جس میں سے ایک اھم مسلہ معاشرے میں بڑھتی ھوئی ایکس کلوسیو نیس بھی ہے۔ ایک ریس لگی ھوئی ہے کوئی ان بلاگرز کو حب آلوطنی کے دائرے سے نکال باھر کر رہے ھیں کوئی مذھبی یا فرقے یا مسلک کی۔ ...

Another group of Afghan refugees have arrived to Afghanistan from Germany after they deported following the rejection of their asylum application. According to reports, the group, consisting 26 rejected asylum seekers left Frankfurt Germany late on Monday night. The group consisted of convicted criminals and single men, who had been living mainly in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia, Deutsche Welle reported. ...

Do they Portent the Beginning of the End for the EU? “The Brussels wall will have come down just like the Berlin wall came down. The EU, this oppressive model, will have disappeared. But the Europe of free nations will have been born…The EU should not lastmore than two minutes longer.” –Marine Le Pen Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s ...

Mahira Khan’s finally made it to Raees promotions. The actor is in Dubai, where she’s making appearances, giving interviews and pulling off style statements left, right and centre.However, she won’t be seen with her co-star Shah Rukh Khan. The two actors are staying on separate floors of the same hotel, so a joint appearance seems to be out of the ...

By Imran Ehsan & Maqsood Butt The land along Bedian Road is about 90 acres of which he got 50 acres as a 4-star general and 40 acres as COAS through Border Area Committee LAHORE: Former chief of army staff General Raheel Sharif has been allotted 868 kanals and 10 marlas of land (about 90 acres) on Bedian Road Lahore, ...

The frontier Gandhi or Badsha Khan will always be remembered all over the world due to his untiring struggle and devoted life for humanity in general and Pashtun nation in particular.It was his farsightedness that he opened schools in the Pashtun territory when people were unknown to education. He was firm believer that through education, he can help his nation ...