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KABUL: The Afghanistan Women’s National Football Team will face India in their opening match of the South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship 2016. The championship has been hosted by India and will be played from 26th December to 4th of January. The Afghan team is playing in Group B of the championship alongside India and Bangladesh. The second match will ...

A multi-sided agent, Chaman Gul, planned to assassinate the US ambassador and Hamid Karzai when he was President of Afghanistan, revealed a new WikiLeaks cable release. The cable was sent by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay to the US Department of Defense on August 17, 2005. According to the cable released by the whistleblower, Chaman Gul, a resident of ...

Akademische Konferenz über Balochistan in Bangkok durch das Militärregime verboten Was geschah? 100 Menschenrechtsaktivisten, unter anderen von der UNO in Genf, renommierte Hochschullehrer, think-tanks wie der renommierte Dr. Richard Benkin, USA, und ein emirierter Professor für strategische Studien der US Armee, Dr. Robert Darius, USA, der Menschenrechtsaktivist Tobias Huch von der FDP, waren von Herrn Munir Mengal von der Baloch ...

Democratic transition in Pakistan after every martial law gets prolonged and complicated as duality in the power center exists even after the formal end of the military dictatorship. The deep state brazenly continues its shenanigans as weak civilian dispensation tries to find its feet. The aforementioned phenomenon has been visible after the general elections in February 2008, that have supposedly ...

 د افغانستان نوم وتې پیلوټه نیلوفر رحماني چې د څو کالونو راهسی یې د هیوادوالو په خذمت کې خپله دنده ترسره کوله. اوس ډیرئ افغانان دغې خور ته سپکې سپورې وايي ځکه چې د هیواد ساتونکي وه باید هیواد یی نه وائ پریښودلئ. خو په دې نه پوهیږي چې نیلوفر رحماني د همدوئ د لاسه هیواد پریښود. له یوې خوا ...

Nilofer Rahmani the first ever Afghan female pilot seeks asylum in the USA Due to inappropriate workplace, discrimination and harassment imposed; urged her to become an immigrant in the USA and what she declared that still she is passionate to be a pilot and is ready to work in air force institutions, but not in Afghanistan. In fact she is ...

SWABI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan fired a broadside at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his political allies at a huge public rally on Sunday. “[PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali] Zardari has returned to bail out Nawaz, but no one can save him [Nawaz] from us,” he added. “It is shameful that the rich is protecting the rich.” Imran also hit out ...

ISLAMABAD: In the latest example of the misuse of increasingly popular social media, none other than Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif fell prey to an internet hoax. A fake news report that went viral on the internet quoted Israel’s defence minister as threatening to “destroy Pakistan with a nuclear attack”. This infuriated Khawaja Asif, who is a regular internet user and ...

The Ministry of Interior on Monday released a progress report on the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) in 2016. In a report issued by the ministry, it conceded that NAP was unable to effectively block financial support for terrorists and terrorist organisations. The report had been authorised by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, who faces increasing criticism for the ...

KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of the parliament expressed “deepest concerns” over Russia relation with the Taliban and Moscow’s interference in internal affairs of Afghanistan. The lawmakers asked the government to take action against Moscow that will host a meeting with the participant of China and Pakistan to discuss on Afghanistan’s situation. “Hosting a meeting by Moscow ...