Author Archives: The Pashtun Times

Cross-border shelling continues in Kunar province of Afghanistan

KABUL: The local officials in eastern Kunar province are saying that the cross-border shelling from the other side of Durand Line continue on this province as dozens of artillery shells landed in two district over a period of 24 hours. Provincial police spokesman Faridullah Dehqan confirmed that more than 80 rounds of artillery shells landed on Nari and Dangam districts ...

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Editorial: Manzoor Pashtun and the partisan Pakistani media

Manzoor Pashtun and the partisan Pakistani media EDITORIAL: It is him who ignited and infused the long-awaited verve in Pashtuns–the worst victims of global war on terror to come together for their national cause–which has become a question of their survival. The Pashtuns perhaps never in history had come across as monstrous and deadliest a challenge as terrorism is, therefore, ...

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Has PTM taken the road less travelled by?

PESHAWAR: Removal of the chairman of the organising committee of the National Youth Organisation – sub-organisation of the Awami National Party – may seem like a decision based on the party’s policy but it also looks like the ANP’s policy statement towards the Pakhtun Tahafuz Movement. Chairman Mohsin Dawar hailing from North Waziristan was found guilty of being an active ...

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Kabul Sakhi shrine: 29 people killed, 52 wounded in New Year suicide blast

KABUL: At least 29 people were killed and 52 others injured in a suicide blast in capital Kabul on Wednesday, security officials said. The blast happened at around 12:00pm in the limits of third Police District near to Kart-i-Sakhi area. Nasratullah Rahimi, deputy spokesman of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) told Pajhwok Afghan News 29 people have been killed and 52 other wounded. The ...

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Amnesty International urges Pakistan to resolve enforced disappearances cases

ISLAMABAD: The Amnesty International urged Pakistan to resolve hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances as the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted on Monday the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan. “As an elected member of this council, Pakistan must uphold the highest human rights standards – to not just acknowledge violations, but take concrete steps to end ...

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شیندي ګل مشاعره او شمالی وزیرستان کښې فکري بدلونونه/ ګوهر وزیر

شیندي ګل مشاعره او شمالی وزیرستان کښې فکري بدلونونه. ګوهر وزیر د کډوالۍ د ژوند نه وړاندې هم پۀ شمالی وزیرستان کښې ما ډېرې مشاعرې لیدلې دي ، چې د هغې  اهداف د لمر غوندې هر چاته معلوم وو. او هر شاعر به د کوشش کولو چې زۀ پۀ مشاعره کښې دغسې نظم لا غزل او وایم چې وسله وال ...

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Ambushing democracy

The brazen manipulations, corruption and intervention by intelligence agencies in the recent Senate elections has exposed the hollowed and farcical nature of the current “ republic “ which doesn’t qualify anymore to  be called even a  mere facade of democracy. On the one hand the creeping coup going on for the last few years has now culminated into a  blatant ...

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Pakistan’s security establishment all out to undermine rightful Pashtuns’ rights movement

Crooked tribal chiefs of Mamandkhel tribe to hold “solidarity rally tomorrow Friday to undermine Pashtun Protection Movement BANNU: Soon after the Pashtun Protection Movement organized a protest demonstration in Bannu against the FIRs registered against the movement’s active members just for voicing their concerns against state terrorism and seeking constitutional rights, the tribal chiefs (Malakaan) of Mamandkhel tribe vowed they ...

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له پښتنو سره د پاکستاني ریاست د ظلم داستان ملګرو ملتونو ته ورسېد

له پښتنو سره د پاکستاني ریاست د ظلم داستان ملګرو ملتونو ته ورسېد په جنېوا کې د ملګرو ملتونو د بشري حقونو شورا ته د پښتنو په استازیتوب فضل الرحمن اپریدي ویلي، د پاکستان ریاست نړۍ ته پښتانه ترهګر ښودلي او نړۍ هم له تاییده پرته پرې باور کړی دی. د شورو- چارشنبې په ورځ په جنېوا کې د شورا ...

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نوې سوړ جنګ     —– اعجازخټک د لاچئ

نوې سوړ جنګ     —– اعجازخټک د لاچئ نن ضرورت د دې خبرې دې چې عالمی امن ته کومه خطره راپیښه ده چې په نتیجه کښې واړه اؤ لوئې ملکونه یو بل سره مخامخ دی،اؤ ځائې په ځائې علاقائی اؤ واړه واړه ګوندونه په دې شخړه کښې داسې ککړ دی چې دا څرنګه کیدې شی چې یوخواه د روس اؤ چین ...

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