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A student of Peshawar University on Tuesday declined to accept a graduation degree from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, citing his dissatisfaction with the federal government as the reason behind the refusal. Nabi Shah, a student of Journalism and Mass Communications at the university in Peshawar, said he was dissatisfied with the federal government, and so had refused to ...

A court in Pakistan has rejected to release the Afghan woman Sharbat Gula who was arrested on charges of possessing fake Pakistani National Identity Card. According to the local media reports, the court rejected her bail plea after hearing arguments from both the sides. The court rejected the bail plea of Sharbat Gula despite lawyers Abdul Latif Afridi and Mubashar ...

AT-KABUL: A commander of the Haqqani network and a Taliban’s shadow governor were killed along 50 other militants during a ground and air operation in the southeastern Paktika province, security official said on Wednesday. The ministry of interior said in a statement that a key Haqqani network commander, Wahid known as Jamshid and his three associates were killed in an ...

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Residents of the Zazai Aryub district of southeastern Paktia province on Wednesday expressed deep concerns over the rocket strikes from Pakistani forces into some areas of the district, asking the government to probe the firings. “If rocket firing was not stopped, it would create huge problem,” the residents said, asking the authorities to take bold steps to ...

AُT-PESHAWAR: Afghan national and National Geographic famous face Sharbat Gula was admitted in a hospital here on Wednesday. Her application for release on bail was rejected by a Special Court at Peshawar today (Wednesday). The rejection comes despite Pakistani’s interior minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Sunday that his country would review Gula’s case on the grounds that “she ...

The Afghanistan National Beach Soccer team has made a considerable gain in the World Ranking of Beach Soccer by climbing 51 points to rise to 57 in the world from its previous ranking of 108. The Afghanistan National Football Federation (AFF) informed regarding the latest ranking of the Beach Soccer ranking. According to AFF, the latest ranking puts Afghanistan ahead ...

KABUL: Taliban insurgents have destroyed some 300 schools in the past two months as they wage war on education, local officials said on Monday. The latest attack was three days ago when Taliban burst into a girls’ school in northern Jawzjan province at night, beating up security guards and burning down the school, which has about 500 students. “The Taliban ...

ہم پشتونوں کے متعلق یہ مشهور تھا کہ ہم مہمان نواز قوم ہیں۔ اسامہ افغانستان آئے تو اس وقت کے امریکہ جس کو بعض لوگ “وقت کا خدا” بھی کہتے تھے نے افغانستان سے اسامہ کو نکالنے کا مطالبہ کیا، جس پر ملا عمر نے کہا کہ ہم مہمان نواز قوم ہیں اور جب تک اسامہ خود نہیں جاتے میں ...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would form a commission to investigate revelations in the Panama Papers leaks that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family owned offshore assets worth millions of dollars. The court’s decision came a day ahead of opposition leader Imran Khan’s planned “lockdown” of the national capital to pressure Sharif to step down or order a probe ...

Shelling from across the border killed seven civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s border districts on Tuesday as Pakistan continued to pound Indian villages and army posts, the latest flare-up between the two countries amid plummeting bilateral ties. Police said two children – a five-year-old and a seven-year-old– and a woman were killed in Ramgarh’s Rangoor Camp. Two women died in ...