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The president-elect of the United States Donald Trump vowed support under his upcoming administration to help unearth Afghanistan’s massive natural resources which include some of the world’s rare earth elements. Trump made the commitment during a tlelphone conversation with the Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. Trump said Afghanistan has considerable natural resources and his administration will be prepared to assist ...

په انساني ټولنه کښې د روغو او صحتمندو خلکو تر څنګ په څه نا څه ناروغئ يا بده پيښه کښې معذوره شوي کسان يا مورزادي (پيدائشي) معذوره خلک هم اوسي چې دغه ډول خلکو ته مونږ او تاسې معلولين يا معيوبين وايو. دغه ډول خلکو ته زمونږ په ټولنه کښې په سپک نظر کتل کيږي او د خپلو نومونو پر ...

While reading the autobiography of Bacha Khan Baba, one could argue that little has changed concerning the plight of Pashtun people, particularly the people of the FATA, since the time of British Colonial rule. In fact it seems as though one set of colonisers has been merely exchanged for another.   Bacha Khan discusses that in 1901, the British introduced ...

The tale of independence and partition of India has been trumpeted and touted by different narrators. It is up to the story-teller who makes it reflect each time in a divergent version. When we turn over leafs of the text books– which are drilled into schooling-minds at school and colleges levels – plethora of questions bubble up out of the ...

The most glaring irony of the “federal, parliamentary democratic system” of Pakistan is that we congratulate ourselves when our elected assemblies complete their constitutional term (so far that has happened only once) and we also do the same when an army chief retires on the expiry of his tenure! Historically, apart from imposing outright martial laws, the deep state has ...

طالبانو د ميدان وردګ ولايت په چک ولسوالی کې د کابل پوليټکنک پوهنتون د انجنيري د پوهنځي د څلورم کال زده کونکی فيض الرحمن رحمانی د کورنۍ د غړو په وړاندې په عام مخضر کې اعدام کړو طالبانو لخوا په فيض الرحمن ادعا کړې وه چې ګو که طالب قومندان يې په تمانچه ويشتلی وو, ولې کوم ثبوت يې نه ...

تاند ویب پاڼې د راپور ترمخه مالیزیا د برما یا میانمار په روهینګیا کې د مسلمانانو د بې رحمانه ټولوژنې او ځورونې په اعتراض کې د سوزوکي کپ په نوم د جنوب ختیځې اسیا د فوټبال په سیالیو کې ګډون بایکاټ کوي.  د مالیزیا د ځوانانو او سپورت وزیر خیري جمال الدین وویل چې په دې اړه به وروستۍ پرېکړه نن ...

Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Over 21 million voters are ready to exercise right to vote in Uzbek Presidential Elections while the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Uzbekistan has finalised all arrangements to conduct extraordinary early Presidential elections on December 4, 2016. There are over 21 million registered voters in Uzbekistan who look excited to cast their vote to directly elect their new ...

RAWALPINDI (Monitoring Desk): Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Friday that every ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) will be responded to with full force and in an effective manner. During a day-long visit to the 10 Corps Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Gen Bajwa said “Each violation of any kind must be responded to with full force in the most effective manner,” Inter-Services ...

Paris (AFP) – Several people taken hostage Friday evening in a Paris travel agency were released safe and sound, police said, but the armed robber who seized them was on the run. “Armed robbery on Massena Boulevard in Paris: operation over,” police tweeted. “Six people have left. The thief is not on the premises.” Sources said seven hostages had been ...