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The US Embassy in Kabul has issued a security alert to citizens in capital Kabul following a series of deadly attacks in the main cities of the country, including capital Kabul that left scores of people dead or wounded. “The U.S. Embassy in Kabul reminds U.S. citizens that serious threats to safety and security exist in the city of Kabul and ...

KABUL: A report, released by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), underlined inflexibility in stance of the warring parties difficult conditions for dialogue and lack of will as main obstacles in the Afghan peace process. The report titled “Peace negotiation assessment in Afghanistan in the past four decades” is a grounded methodology report drafted after interviewing different politicians and ...

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa civil society, students and political parties workers arranged demonstration to condemn the disappearance of teacher, writer, human right activist Salman Haider and three other bloggers across Pakistan. The demonstrations had placards and banners to that had slogans to recover the writers and human right activists. While addressing the gathering Awami National Party’s former MNA and central leader ...

I grew up in a small village on the periphery of Pakistan. In childhood and till my undergraduate studies in Lahore, I did not read at all. Perhaps, I did not have the opportunity or perhaps I just did not care. Or may be I did not care because of the environment. There was no library where I lived. I ...

More than 9,400 undocumented Afghans have returned home from Iran and Pakistan in the first week of 2017, raising concerns over how the war-torn Asian nation will cope with the rising influx, the United Nations said Wednesday. The vast majority were young men crossing the border from Iran. Although repatriation is not compulsory, the Pakistani government has stepped up pressure ...

KABUL: The Taliban militants group has released the video of an American and an Australian professor who were kidnapped by the group last year. The 13-minute video purportedly shows the making desperate pleas for their lives. The hostages have been identified as Timothy Weekes, an English teacher from Sydney, and Kevin King, a professor from the United States. The video ...

KABUL: The provincial governor of southern Kandahar province Humayoun Azizi will be sent to Germany for further treatment of the injuries he sustained in the attack on Tuesday. Local government officials said Azizi is currently receiving treatment in foreign forces hospital in Kandahar. Provincial governor’s spokesman Samim Khpolwak said the governor has received injuries in his hand some parts of ...

A distributor here has claimed receiving threat letters from Shiv Sena’s Chhattisgarh wing over the release of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s forthcoming action crime thriller film Raees, which also features Pakistani actress Mahira Khan. Directed by Rahul Dholakia, Raees is slated to release on January 25. Mumbai-based distributor Akshaye Rathi tagged Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray’s son and Yuva ...

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in New York City. —AFP President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday flatly denied “phoney” explosive allegations about ties with Russia and lurid behaviour on a trip to Moscow that have tainted his election victory and threatened to engulf his presidency. Just over a week before Trump takes office, the United States has been ...

KABUL: The provincial police chief of the southern Kandahar province General Abdul Raziq has said notorious Haqqani terrorist network with the support of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) were behind the deadly attack on governor’s compound. Speaking during a press conference, Gen. Raziq said the Haqqani network and ISI were working since a long period of time to target the ...