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KABUL: The Pakistani authorities have confirmed a helicopter belonging to the Punjab government has crash-landed in Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Inter Services Public Relations, media wing of the Pakistani military, Gen. Asim Bajwa said the country’s Chief of Army Staff has asked the commander of the NATO-led Resolute Support mission to help in recovery of the crew. He said ...

ISLAMABAD: The interior ministers of both Pakistan and India made critical remarks apparently aimed at each other’s governments on the second day of a Saarc conference here on Thursday, as tensions between the two neighbouring countries run high in the aftermath of weeks-long violence in India-held Kashmir. In his address to the Saarc interior ministers’ conference, India’s home minister made ...

KABUL: A Pakistani helicopter has crash-landed in the central Logar province of Afghanistan earlier today, the provincial council officials said. A member of the provincial council Dr. Abdul Wali Wakil said the helicopter crash-landed in the restive Azra district and all 6 on board were captured by the militants. Provincial governor’s spokesman Salim Saleh has confirmed to RFE that the ...

بنو ں میں تمام سیاسی جماعتوں ،تاجرو سماجی تنظیموں کا مشترکہ مشاورتی گرینڈ جرگہ پریس کلب میں منعقد ہُوا جس کی میزبانی اے این پی ولی نے کی۔جرگہ میں اقتصادی راہداری کی تبدیلی پر روشنی ڈالی گئی اور اس منصوبے کو ملک کی مفاد کا منصوبہ قرار دیا لیکن اس کے روٹ کی تبدیلی پشتون دشمن قرار دیا اور وزیر ...

KABUL: A fire has reportedly broken out in the Abasin Zadran cloths market in Mirwais Maidan area of the capital Kabul on Thursday. An eyewitness Edress Ahmad told Pajhwok Afghan News that the fire was erupted in the top storey of the Market around 10:00am this morning. He said some people believed it was a suicide bombing inside the market and ...

HERAT: Suspected Taliban militants attacked foreign tourists escorted by an Afghan army convoy in the western province of Herat on Thursday, officials said, with a military spokesman saying at least six people were wounded. The Taliban have officially not claimed responsibility so far for the attack and the nationality of the tourists was not immediately known. “The convoy was ambushed ...

Pakistan will not receive $300 million in military reimbursements from the United States due to Islamabad’s lack of action against the Haqqani terrorist network operating from its safe havens in Pakistan. A US official has said the Pentagon Chief Ash Carter has decided not to tell Congress that Pakistan was taking adequate action against the Haqqani network. “The funds could ...

KABUL: The provincial police chief of the southern Kandahar province General Abdul Raziq has reportedly put a ban on Pakistani Rupees in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. In the meantime the Dollar rates against the Afghani currency witnessed an unprecedented reduction in the main exchange market of Kabul city, Sarai Shahzada – Shahzada Market, today. There has been a reduction ...

EDITORIAL: The world is awakening to the fact that facilitation of refugees both in terms of integration and repatriation is of utmost significance for harmonious socio-cultural and politico-economic dispensation around the globe. There seems to be a widespread realization that the scars in the hearts of refugee families due to leaving their hearths and homes in the midst of natural ...

UNITED KINGDOM: A Pakistani woman has been jailed for five years for having sex with her teenage son on home-made porn videos, it has been reported. The 36-year-old woman was reportedly making the films and was sending to a relative in Pakistan who had allegedly asked her to make the material. The woman was tried at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court ...