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باچا خان په خوﺉ ډير ساده وو او سادګي يې خوښوله. په دغه سفر کښې ورسره د کور نه خوراک او دوه جوړې جامې وې :واشنگټن  چا راته اوويل خبر يي! باچا خان کراچۍ ته روان دی. ذرذر مې ځان سم کړو. اته پته مې وکړه او هم په هغه اورګاډي کښې مې ټکټ واخست په کوم کښې چې به ...

The demography plays an important role in the stability, peace, progress and smooth running of a country and the foreign and domestic policy is grossly rest on demography, strategic location. Watan (Motherland) and country are inherently different words. Countries are made by people and disintegrated by people. Watan (Motherland) is a more natural entity, owned by a race or inheritance ...

HEIDELBERG: German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung on Monday tweeted documents to ‘help’ Pakistanis form their own opinion on the role of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter in Panamagate. “For those in Pakistan who doubt the role of the prime minister’s daughter Mariam Safdar in Panama Papers – some of the documents. Judge yourself,” Süddeutsche Zeitung tweeted, along with attachments purporting to ...

Afghanistan’s first and only all women orchestra (Zohra) has been chosen the winner of Freemuse Award 2017. The award was apparently given to Zohra, Afghanistan’s first and only all women orchestra, for their role in empowering the women through music. Freemuse, the world forum on music and censorship, is an independent international membership organisation advocating and defending freedom of expression ...

EDITORIAL: The Taliban militant group in Afghanistan has urged the new US administration to withdraw all foreign forces by changing its Afghan policy. The Taliban has warned that the presence of the US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan would prolong the Afghan war. Prior to this, Taliban has asked the Obama administration to leave Afghanistan.Such remarks showing frustration of the insurgents ...

KABUL: The former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai said the United States and Russia must work together to plot a path along which the Central Asian country could progress. During an interview with EFE in New Delhi, Karzai said he was convinced the Taliban, wrested from power during the American invasion in 2001, sought a peace process to end the ...

KABUL: Islamabad is moving to hold ‘tough talks’ with the Afghan government in the upcoming visit of Pakistan’s Army Chief General Javed Bajwa to Kabul. Sources describe that Gen. Bajwa would visit Afghanistan when the time is right, aimed to rebuild the fractured ties between the two countries. One of the Pakistani security officials told a local Pakistani newspaper on ...

From Friday, January 20th 2017, the United States has a new President – for many, not only in America, still at least controversial and in the extreme version: totally unacceptable Donald John Trump. In a precise ceremony in front of the Congress Trump gave his oath and delivered his first speech as head of state. And for everybody who is ...

KABUL: The United States will deploy at least 1,500 soldiers from the Ready First Brigade to Afghanistan, it has been reported. The soldiers will serve for a period of 9 months as part of the advise, assist, and train mission to help the Afghan army and police. With 300 already deployed to Afghanistan, the deployment of the remaining soldiers will ...

Book Review “Dewaal Sara Khabaray” “Talking to the wall”             Rahmat Shah Sayel once wrote “Chains every where, trenches abound  and military posts dotting the homeland, Be inflamed by your own consciousness, the homeland is a hell to live in.” As I listen to these piercing lines in the voice of a popular Pashtun singer Gulzar Alam sitting hundred of ...