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KABUL: At least 34 insurgents including a commander were killed and wounded in different operations launched by the Afghan security forces within the past 24 hours across the county, Ministry of Defense said on Friday. In a media statement, the ministry said the national army with the cooperation of the national police and the National Directorate of Security conducted clearance ...

KABUL: Russian authorities are busy in preparations to host its arch-rival in the Cold War era Pakistan and China to discuss security situation in Afghanistan and confer on regional stability and peace, Pakistani foreign ministry confirmed. Spokesman for the ministry, Nafees Zakaria, confirmed the other day that Pakistani and Chinese officials would attend the trilateral talks on December 27 in ...

KABUL: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has lodged a strong protest over shelling of areas across the Durand Line by summoning Pakistan’s ambassador Syed Ibrar Hussain. According to a media statement issued by the MoFA, the foreign ministry’s first political chairman Muhammad Musa Arifi had conveyed serious concerns over Pakistani troops shelling in Sarkani district of Kunar and Maroof district ...

Yet it is Afghanistan that continues to inspire my work. Through my work I have been able to portray memories of Afghanistan while studying here in Indonesia. Nesar Ahmad Eesar in an exclusive interview with THE PASHTUN TIMES said: During my time, while studying painting, people kept telling me that I should not be learning painting as it is Haram ...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin today said there was “nothing unusual” about US President- elect Donald Trump’s call to boost America’s nuclear capability. Read More: Vladimir Putin orders security reinforcement after envoy’s assassination “As concerns the new president-elect of the United States Mr Trump, there is nothing new here. During his election campaign he spoke about the necessity of strengthening the ...

Romanian lawmakers are poised to elect the EU’s first Muslim prime minister in a surprise appointment that comes despite a rising tide of anti-Muslim sentiment elsewhere on the continent. Sevil Shhaideh, a 52-year-old member of the Tatar Muslim minority and a low-key former public administration minister, was proposed by her political mentor Liviu Dragnea, leader of the left-leaning PSD party, ...

QUETTA: Reacting to the Quetta commission report, Balochistan High Court Bar Association (BHCBA) has demanded the resignation of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, president BHCBA Ghani Khilji said that the Quetta commission report has exposed the incompetence and negligence of the ministers, therefore, they ...

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) Thursday observed 4th death anniversary of Bashir Ahmad Bilour and paid rich tributes to him for his services for Pakthuns and province. On 22 December 2012, Bilour was leaving after attending a meeting of ANP workers in Peshawar, when he was attacked and critically injured by a suicide bomber. He was rushed to Lady Reading ...

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday that attacks this week in Berlin and Ankara proved he was correct to propose curbing Muslim immigration to the United States. “What’s going on is terrible, terrible,” Trump told reporters, when asked about the truck attack that killed 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin and the killing of Russia’s ambassador to ...

The Pakistani military has resumed artillery shelling in southern Kandahar and eastern Kunar provinces of Afghanistan as Afghanistan summons the country’s ambassador to lodge a protest over indiscriminate shelling. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) said the Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan Syed Abrar Hussain was summoned over the recent artillery shelling from the side of Durand Line by ...