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AFGHANISTAN: Hashim Karzai, the cousin of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has succumbed to injuries he sustained in a deadly bombing in Kandahar last week. Sources close to the victim’s family have said Hashim died of his wounds while receiving treatments in a hospital in India. Hashim Karzai was a trader and his death has been confirmed by the provincial ...

KABUL: The Pakistani army chief of staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa called President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani following a series of deadly bombings in capital Kabul and other key provinces to condole the terrorist attacks that left scores of people dead or wounded. According to an official statement released by media wing of the Pakistani military “Chief of Army Staff (COAS) ...

KABUL: Several members of the Harakat-e-Inqelab-e-Islami (Movement of Islamic Revolution), a former jihadi party, met the former president Hamid Karzai, and commended him for his 13 years long services as the president of the country, the ex-president’s office said on Saturday. “They offered Karzai a letter of appreciation for his services,” it added. The members of the former jihadi party ...

KABUL: The number of terrorist attacks is on the rise in Afghanistan, and security situation in Afghanistan remained a challenging, Russian officials said. “We urge the warring parties in Afghanistan, primarily the leaders of the Taliban movement, to renounce violence and to take urgent action to launch intra-Afghan dialogue,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told newsmen in Moscow. Hinting ...

KABUL: The US defense secretary-designate General James Mattis has said the Taliban group is still using the Pakistani soil for insurgency in Afghanistan and the sanctuaries of the group along with the associated militant networks in the country is a key operational issue faced by Afghan forces. At his confirmation hearing at the Senate Armed Forces Committee on Thursday afternoon, ...

سابق آرمی چیف جنرل راحیل شریف کی 39 اسلامی ممالک پر مشتمل  فوجی اتحاد کی کمان سنبھالنے کی خبر سے پاکستان میں کئ حوالوں سے زبردست بحث چڑ چکی ہے ۔ جس میں پاک –  سعودی عرب تعلقات کے حوالے سے بھی کئی باتیں ھو رہی ہے ۔ اس ضمن میں یہ سوالات بڑے اھم ھیں کہ پاک-سعودی تعلقات برا ...

Enforced disappearances have remained a serious problem in terms of violation of human rights in Pakistan for a long time. But the scale and magnitude that this problem has acquired over the last one decade is frightening. The fourth military operation that started in Balochistan against Baloch nationalists in 2005 saw a growing number of Baloch political activists getting disappeared. ...

DUBAI: Those coward people who are trying to hack “The Pashtun Times” Facebook’s page, twitter and website are no lesser than the enemies of “Freedom of Expression”. The Pashtun Times team believes in strong democratic arguments in a peaceful manner. We speak beyond narratives and appreciate others to deal with us in sophisticated and professional way. Instead of hacking our ...

The Bollywood actor will be one of the Oxford Union’s speakers from the world of sport, media and culture. Katrina Kaif isn’t just a sought-after star in Bollywood. The Baar Baar Dekho actor has been asked to speak at talks hosted by Oxford University’s debating society The Oxford Union, and she’ll be joining renowned personalities from all over the world. ...

KABUL: Scores of protesters gathered outside the Pakistan embassy in Kabul on Friday to demonstrate against Pakistan’s alleged support for insurgents. The demonstrators also raised slogans against Pakistan Army’s intelligence arm, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Afghan media reported. A number of Afghanistan Green Trend (AGT) members held a demonstration outside the Pakistani embassy in Kabul in protest over Islamabad’s perceived role ...