Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their press conference in Konstantinovsky Palace outside Saint Petersburg. -AFP SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday pledged to reinvigorate ties after their first meeting since Ankara shot down a Russian warplane last November. Erdogan’s visit to Putin’s hometown ...
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Just blaming RAW for everything will not work, says Pashtun leader Mehmud Khan Achakzai
Pashtun leader Mehmud Khan Achakzai says: PM Nawaz should sack officers of intelligence agencies if they fail to trace Quetta attack perpetrators. Intelligence agencies are busy in gathering information about the activities of politicians while terrorists are free to move anywhere. Our intelligence agencies failed to nab terrorists. ISLAMABAD: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai on ...
Read More »ISIS Khurasan chief reportedly killed in East of Afghanistan
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group for the so called Khurasan province has been killed during an operation of Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan officials have said they are aware of the reports regarding the death of ISIS Khurasan chief Hafiz Saeed but an investigation is underway to confirm his death. ...
Read More »د افغانستان پخوانى جمهور رئیس حامد کرزی د کوټې پر روغتون تروریستی برید په کلکو ټکو غندلې دې
کابل: د افغانستان پخوانى جمهور رئیس حامد کرزی د کوټې پر یو ملکي روغتون هغه تروریستی برید چې په پایله کې یې ګڼ شمېر ملکي وګړي شهیدان او ټپيان شول په کلکو ټکو غندې او د بیګناه خلکو وژنه د ټولو انساني او اسلامي اصولو او موازینو ضد عمل بولي. حامد کرزی همداراز زیاتوي د افغانستان او پاکستان د خلکو ...
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د کوټي، پېښور، ږوب، چارسدې او یا نورو سیمو بې پښتو، بې وجدانه، بې غیرته او پردي پال پښتانه چې د کشمیریانو، ترکیانو او ځینو نورو پر ویر او غم مرثيې وايي، مظاهرې ورباندې کوي ګټې ورباندې کوي، نن دي د خپل ورور په وژلو هم خوابده کړي، مظاهرې دي وکړي، ګرم ته دي د ګرم ګوته ونیسي او میدان ...
Read More »Quetta the orphan city, baths in blood again
Video link: https://www.facebook.com/PukhtoonSocialMedia/videos/880113365455857/ At least 65 people were killed and scores of others were wounded in an explosion in Quetta city, the provincial capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan. According to the local media reports, the incident took place earlier today inside the Civil Hospital which came shortly after the killing of former president of Balochistan Bar Association Bilal Anwar Kasi. Kasi ...
Read More »53 dead as blast hits Quetta Civil Hospital after lawyer’s killing
PAKISTAN: At least 53 people were killed in a suicide bombing inside the Civil Hospital on Monday, hospital officials said. Many others were injured in the attack. There was no claim of responsibility for the blast, which occurred at the gates of the building housing the emergency ward. Bomb Disposal Squad officials confirmed the explosion was a suicide bombing. “The ...
Read More »The Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led Hezb-i-Islami optimistic about concluding peace deal with Kabul
KABUL: The Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) has claimed the Afghan government had assured them that the peace deal would be finalised this time. A statement issued by the HIA’s political wing said peace talks with the Afghan government had been finalised, the draft agreement was also final and ready for signature but it had to be delayed for some ...
Read More »Afghanistan’s only woman athlete at the Olympics is running alone but fighting for all women
Twenty-year-old Kimia Yousufi fled to Iran as a child. At the glittering Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, did you see the flag-bearer of the Afghanistan team, the only female member of their contingent, 20-year-old Kimia Yousufi? Yousufi, who will be competing in the track-and-field events, fled her home country Afghanistan and went to Iran ...
Read More »The politics of patriotic songs and Pakistan!!
Pakistan media has an amazing repertoire of patriotic songs post every nerve wrecking and state machinery failure in our historical journey of nearly 69 years. The latest one seems to be from coke studio one of the most watched music programme in Pakistan creating the complicated and beautiful relation between music and patriotic emotions. People admire and listen to it ...
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