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KABUL: First Vice-President General Abdul Rashid Dostum on Sunday called on President Ashraf Ghani and the two leaders conferred on the security situation in north and northeastern provinces. A statement from the Presidential Palace said Dostum briefed the president about his visit to Turkey and the security situation in northern provinces and the overall social life there. The statement said ...

Pakistan using terrorism as tool against immediate neighbors  The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Pakistan is still using terrorism as a tool against its immediate neighbors. In his speech at a think tank in New Delhi, Karzai said ‘the war on terror has failed to discourage Pakistan from using terrorism and religious radicalism as tools against its immediate ...

KHOST CITY: Mullah Abdul Rauf Arafi has been appointed as new leader of a Talibansplinter group, led by Mullah Rasoul, the group’s spokesman Mullah Abdul Rahman Niazi said on Saturday. In a telephonic conversation, Niazai told Pajhwok Afghan News Mullah Arafi had been appointed by a 13-member executive council of the group. He is a resident of the Spin Boldak district ...

A deadly persists among Afghanistan and Pakistan along the Durand Line close to Chaman city, the capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan. The two sides failed to resolve tensions as the gate between the two countries remains closed since Thursday. Gen. Mohammad from Afghanistan participated in talks with the Pakistani side led by Gen. Jahazeeb to resolve the issue but ...

An Afghan cleric who was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was close to Afghan Taliban group, it has been reported. Sheikh Ghulam Hazrat was among three religious clerics who have been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Pakistan during the recent days. His father Sheikh Khwaja Muhammad Hazrat was also killed along with him ...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, applied for a new Pakistani passport 11 weeks ago but has not yet received it, he has told Dawn. But an official at the Pakistan Embassy, Washington, dispelled the impression that the government had decided not to issue a passport to the former ambassador for his alleged anti-Pakistan views. Since ...

The Senate of Pakistan which is the house of the federation celebrated its 44th Foundation Day on August 5. It was on this date 43 years ago that the Senate was founded in which all the federating units have equal representation irrespective of the size of their population. The Upper House of Parliament was meant to provide space for the ...

Free Balochistan Movement: The Long March of Balochs from Düsseldorf to Berlin From 16th of July until 5th of August, activists of the Free Balochistan Movement went on traverse half of the Republic of Germany from Düsseldorf to Berlin by foot, equipped with flags of Balochistan and Germany, a megaphone and information leaflets to the German population about the atrocities ...

Vom 16. Juli bis zum 5. August machten sich Aktivisten der Balochistanbewegung auf, die halbe Republik von Düsseldorf nach Berlin zu Fuß zu durchqueren, bestückt mit Fahnen von Balochistan und Deutschland, einem Megaphon und Informationsflyern, um die deutsche Bevölkerung über die Greueltaten in ihrem Heimatland aufzuklären, über einen hierzulande unbekannten stattfindenden Genozid, den die pakistanische Armee und der Geheimdienst ISI ...

Afghan women and children wait for verification of documents at the UN repatriation centre in Chamkani, Peshawar, on Friday. — White Star PESHAWAR: The United Nations Voluntary Repatriation Centre (VRC) in Peshawar is unable to cope with the unexpected surge in the number of repatriating Afghan refugees, who traveled from Punjab and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but got stuck for ...