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GILGIT: Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday warned India’s premier and its spy agency that Pakistan knows its enemies and is fully aware of their nefarious designs. Making a special mention of Indian PM Narendra Modi and the country’s intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Gen Raheel assured the nation that the country’s frontiers are totally secure. The ...

When our parents were whispering to each other with frightened faces, their faces signified terror. When you got out of the house, you could see every new place hit by a rocket. An air of fear and uncertainty had taken over all of Kabul. Nothing was certain, especially our future, life and death. Our parents had to make an ultimate ...

QUETTA: Pakistan reopened its border with Afghanistan at Chaman on Thursday, 14 days after it was closed after an Afghan mob burnt a Pakistani flag and attacked the Friendship Gate. Islamabad agreed to reopen the border on Wednesday after Kabul strongly condemned the burning of the Pakistani flag. Officials from both sides held five meetings to discuss the issue until ...

KABUL: Pashtun-Baloch Solidarity Day was marked in an event organized by the Ministry of Border and Tribal Affairs here in Kabul, aimed to strengthen brotherly and historical ties between the Baloch and Pashtun people further. A number of the cabinet members, parliamentarians, tribal leaders, poets and writers participated in the ceremony. Sunbula 9 (sixth month of solar year) is marked ...

خپل غمونه مو که کم نه دي له چا نه خو د بل په درد شريک يو بې قرار يو پروفیسر رحمت الله درد پيښور  د پښتو ژبې وتلی غزل ګو شاعر ښاغلی پروفیسر رحمت الله درد د شورو په ورځ د ورپیښې ناروغۍ له امله د ۸۲ؤ کالو په عمر کې وفات شوی چې ټاکل شوې نن ماښام اووه ...

A heavy explosion rocked Charkh district in central Logar province earlier today after a group of insurgency launched a coordinated attack on district government compound by detonating a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED). According to the local government officials, several gunmen have taken positions in some buildings near the government compound and are exchanging fire with the security forces. Provincial ...

WASHINGTON: The US State Department has said that the Haqqani network and other terrorist groups that operate inside Pakistan and along the Afghan border are a continued security threat to the entire South Asian region and beyond. At the Tuesday afternoon news briefing, spokesman John Kirby also said that a trilateral dialogue of the United States, India and Afghanistan would ...

The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah said Afghanistan is fighting the forces of devil and darkness as he insisted on increasing support to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF). In his speech during a conference on the Future of Police in Afghanistan, CEO Abdullah said Afghanistan is facing a fight that is against humanity. Abdullah further added that ...

India has responded positively to a request by the Afghan authorities to equip the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDS), it has been reported. The Afghan Ambassador to India, Dr. Shaida Mohammad Abdali, has said the request was made by the Afghan Army Chief of Staff General Qadam Shah Shaheem during his visit to New Delhi. He told RFE ...

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali on Wednesday took suo motu notice of the Aug 8 suicide bombing at Quetta Civil Hospital in which 73 people, most of them lawyers, were killed. The CJP took suo motu notice under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution on a note submitted by the Supreme Court registrar Arbab Muhammad ...