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The non-violent struggle, led by the legendary Pashtun freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan well known as Bacha Khan, against the British colonial rule is a great lesson in the history of political movements. After a careful look into the tragic events and misfortunes of the past three decades in Afghanistan beginning with the Communist Coup of April 1978 followed ...

Trans Action (KP) is a Provincial Alliance of transgender which is working to improve gender identity and gender reassignment equality, rights and inclusion seeks to improve conditions and advance the rights, protection and equality of Tran’s people. We are currently working to address underlying issues of chronic vulnerability and overlooked transgender needs, issues and vulnerabilities and protect their civil political ...

The former Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS) Chief, Rahmatullah Nabil has released classified documents about the support of Pakistan to the Afghan militant groups, specifically the notorious Haqqani terrorist network. The six documents released by Nabil include formal letters by Pakistani military and the military intelligence of the country, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Nabil says the Haqqani network ...

The United States has called on Pakistan to target all militant groups including those targeting the country’s neighbors. Deputy spokesperson for the State Department, Mark Toner, hailed Pakistan’s efforts regarding the ongoing military operations in the tribal regions of the country. Admitting the country has suffered greatly from the menace of terrorism, Toner, said “We believe that Pakistan is taking ...

Demand merger of tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa PESHAWAR: The All Fata Political Parties Alliance has to observe August 14 as black day if government fails to merge the tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Addressing at news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Thursday, All Fata Political Parties Alliance president Haji Iqbal Afrdi said that tribal people had already requested ...

BADIN: A woman succumbed to her injuries after being beaten with stones and bricks by her husband in Tando Muhammad Khan’s People’s Colony area on Friday, local officials quoted witnesses as saying. The 35-year-old mother of four was attacked with stones and bricks before her husband fled the scene, the officials said. The woman was being transported to the Tando ...

FRANCE: At least 84 people lost their lives after a truck plowed into pedestrians during Bastille Day celebrations in the popular French seaside city of Nice on Thursday. The French President Francois Hollande called the incident ‘obviously a terrorist attack’. In his address earlier this morning, Hollande pledged to step u efforts to fight terror in Iraq and Syria while ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani ordered the airstrike that killed the mastermind of several deadly attacks in Pakistan including the Peshawar school and the Bacha Khan University massacres, the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad said on Thursday. Dr. Omar Zakhilwal wrote on his Facebook page that President Ghani ordered the July 9 airstrike on Khalia Omar Mansour, aka Khalid Khorasani, after Afghan ...

BRUSSELS: EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos addresses the media at the EU Commission headquarters on Wednesday.—AP BRUSSELS: The European Commission proposed more unified EU asylum rules on Wednesday, in a bid to stop people waiting for refugee status moving around the bloc and disrupting its passport-free zone. In an unprecedented wave of migration last year, ...

PESHAWAR: As active combat operations are reaching their ultimate end, the Army has assumed the monitoring role in education and health sectors in Fata, insist multiple sources. A relevant official confided to Dawn that political agents had received letters from the Corps Headquarters Peshawar informing them that monitoring teams of the army would visit schools, colleges and health centres to ...