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KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on Taliban group in Afghanistan to be free from the foreign influence, particularly pointing towards the Pakistani intelligence and military. In an interview with Reuters, Karzai appealed to the Taliban “as fellow Afghans to recognise that this is their country” and to break free of the influence of Pakistan, which despite ...

قربانی کی کھالوں سے آمدن عسکریت پسند تنظیموں کی آمدن کا ایک اھم زریعہ ہے ۔ امسال بھی عید قربان کی امد پر مختلف عسکریت پسند تنظیموں کی جانب سے کھالیں جمع کرنے کیلئے تشہیری مھم شروع کی گئی۔ قومی منصوبہ عمل میں دھشت گرد تنظیموں کو فنڈز روکنے کی بات کی گئی تھی مگر اس سلسلے میں مکمل کامیابی ...

FILE: A Pakistani soldier walks in a house destroyed during a military operation in the of town of Miran Shah, North Waziristan in July 2014. EIDAK, PAKISTAN: The excitement among a group of elderly turbaned tribal leaders in a remote village in northwestern Pakistan is palpable. After suffering a decade of terrorist oppression and years of displacement due to an ...

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday expressed disappointment over the “unhelpful statements” made by the Afghan leadership and termed it “complete disregard to the efforts that Pakistan has made for peace and stability in Afghanistan”. Foreign Office’s statement was in response to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s earlier call to involve India in transit trade with Afghanistan. “We have noted with ...

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber targeted a mosque in Mohmand Agency’s Anbar tehsil during Friday prayers, leaving at least 24 people dead and 31 others injured, official of the political administration said. Assistant Political Agent Naveed Akbar told media that the injured had been transported to hospitals in Bajaur Agency, Charsadda and Peshawar for treatment. The bombing took place in the ...

NEW DELHI: India has pledged $1 billion in fresh aid to Afghanistan as President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani is New Delhi to meet with the country’s officials to discuss issues of mutual interest. The $1 billion aid announcement by New Delhi comes as the country has already spent around $2 billion on reconstruction projects in Afghanistan. India’s foreign secretary S Jaishankar ...

The girl is between two impasses: the burden of losing a father and the agony of sitting by an undying senseless mother. You might be a Pakistani if you forget the unforgettable tragedies. Yet, if you impulsively react to an accident on the very happening, you prove to be a Pakistani too. What may make you a sensible person, you ...

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In this photograph taken on June 28, 2016, a worker checks a line of beer cans at the Muree Brewery Company in Rawalpindi. ─ AFP RAWALPINDI: At Murree Brewery, home of Pakistan’s national lager, vintage copper boilers belch odorous fumes as they churn out 10 million litres of beer each year. Hundreds of tons of gin and whisky are stored ...

Policymakers continue to uphold their colonial legacy entrenched in the patriarchal position that a woman’s legal status is acquired through her relationship with a man—first her father and then her husband Pakistan is an all-male state, which reflects in its politics, economics, legislation, culture and social ethos. It ranks at the bottom of gender equality and the fact that it ...