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AFP: At least four human rights activists known on social media for their leftist views have gone missing this week, relatives and NGO workers told AFP on Sunday, as analysts voiced rights concerns. Two of the men — Waqas Goraya and Asim Saeed — disappeared on January 4, according to a cybersecurity NGO, while Salman Haider vanished on Friday and Ahmed ...

ISLAMABAD: The military’s media wing on Sunday announced that “the military courts have ceased to function on expiry of mandated period”. The military courts were established through constitutional amendment following the attack on Army Public School in Peshawar. According to a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations, “special constitutional arrangements were made to effectively check the terrorists and terrorism”. “Routine ...

KABUL: Unknown gunmen have opened fire on Afghan cricketer Shapoor Zadran in capital Kabul. According to reports, the incident took place late on Saturday night in the vicinity of Bagrami area of Kabul. Reports indicate Zadran has managed to escape the attack unhurt after receiving several bullets in his vehicle. Zadran was reportedly going towards his house together with his ...

KABUL: Two top Haqqani network leaders hailing from Pakistan killed in Nangarhar Two senior commanders of the Haqqani terrorist network were killed during an operation of the Afghan National Police (ANP) Special Forces. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the two top Haqqani leaders were killed in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The statement further added that ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani’s daughter Mariam Ghani has visited Afghanistan to support a documentary on the historic Dar-ul-Aman Palace being renovated under the supervision of the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing. Mariam Ghani visited the palace to review the construction work of the Palace together with the Minister of Urban Development and Housing Syed Sadat Mansoor Naderi. Mr. ...

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PESHAWAR: Speakers, at a study circle, have stressed the need for evolving a comprehensive Pakhtun cultural narrative to achieve national objectives. The discussion was conducted under the auspices of Bacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation at the University Town here on Saturday. The topic of the study circle was ‘basics of a successful national political movement’. Delegates from Afghanistan, Balochistan, Fata ...

Is this a country for Muslims or for Islam? This is the dilemma that Pakistan has faced from day one. For the majority of Muslim League leaders, Pakistan was to be a country for Muslims where they could live their lives without any fear of domination. The idea of Pakistan as a country for Islam took root later when the ...

هند په روان کال کې په خپل هيواد کې لس لويی ميګا پروجيکټونه ترسره کولو پلان لري, زه غواړم دغه پراجيکټونو په اړه لنډ وليکم چې څه په اړه دي او څومره مصرف پرې کيږي خو مخکې له دې چې هغه پښتون چې په پاکستان فخر کوي, د پنجابي د خوشالئ لپاره هندستان او خپل افغان ته کنځه سپکې سپورې ...

PAJHWOK: Hundreds of US military personnel will deploy to southern Helmand province in the spring to help train Afghan security forces, a military website says. Around 300 troops from II Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, would join the NATO mission to train the Afghan National Army’s 215th Corps and the 505th Zone National Police. The ...