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The blast took place near a bus stand in Peshawar.— Photo by author PESHAWAR: At least three people including a traffic policeman were injured in a roadside blast here on Friday, police said. According to police, the bomb which had been planted on a roadside near Charsadda bus terminal within the jurisdiction of the Faqirabad Police Station went off with ...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said agreement of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is confidential and cannot be made public. “Agreement of the economic corridor with China is sensitive and it cannot be disclosed,” Iqbal said in the Senate session. However, the minister handed over a sealed copy of the CPEC agreement to Chairman Senate ...

Video interview in Pashto: Visa and passport can’t separate Pashtuns across the Durand Line, says Dr. Abdullah Waheed Poyan, Afghan consul general in Peshawar. THE PASHTUN TIMES

Image captionThis photo of the victim was provided by the Takhar women’s affairs department A woman is critically ill in northern Afghanistan after her husband nearly beat her to death, and cut part of her genitals, family members say. The incident happened in the Ashkamish district of Takhar province. The victim, who is in her 20s, told the BBC that ...

KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai called the late king Mohammad Zaher Shah well-wishing, peace-loving and democrat person who supported the national unity. “Afghanistan took slow but fruitful social, economic and cultural steps during his long-time reign,” Karzai said in a message over Shah’s ninth death anniversary, calling the 1965 constitution as the beginning of democracy during his monarchy. Karzai said the ...

KABUL: US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford has said military mission in Afghanistan was not complete and could not be completed in the near future. A media report said on Wednesday. During a joint Pentagon news briefing on Monday afternoon, US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter said that the United States would continue to ...

Five hundred years ago Machiavelli wrote: “A ruler must not worry about being labelled cruel when it’s a question of keeping subjects loyal and united. It is better to be feared than loved, for we can say of most people that they are ungrateful, unreliable, they lie, they fake, they are greedy. The ruler who has relied on promises is ...

Malalai was an Afghan heroine from the small village of Khig in Kandahar who played a major role in the Battle of Maiwand (July 27th, 1880) during the second Anglo-Afghan war. During the battle, when the tide turned against the Afghan fighters and their morale dropped, Malalai cried out: Young love if you do not fall in the battle of ...

JALALABAD: A large Islamic State or Daesh centre has been captured by Afghan commando forces during an operation in the Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province. The Daesh affiliates would manage their activities from the centre in Sarai Bazaar area and would put on trial their opponents. The centre has been captured by commando forces during their operation and now ...

MOSCOW: The National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar has said Afghanistan need modern Mi-35 gunship helicopters in order to rebuff the terrorist groups in the country. Atmar is currently on an official visit to Russia to discuss issues of bilateral interest as well as we expanding ties between Kabul and Moscow. “We need combat helicopters and other weapons to rebuff ...