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The Afghanistan National Cricket Team is looking to host more One Day International (ODI) matches in its home ground in India. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) officials are hope to schedule bilateral One-Day Internationals in India in a bid to arrange more fixtures against the full members. With the September 2017 cut-off fast approaching, Afghanistan need to play more ODIs ...

KABUL: The bordering regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan are still safe havens for many terrorist groups, the US Department of State said Monday. State Department spokesman John Kirby made the comments during the daily press briefing. He was responding to a question regarding the issue of Durand Line and status as the formal border line between the two countries which ...

Remember that getting rid of the responsibility by saying they do not belong to us is not a solution to save oneself. Would you have accepted a same reaction and logic of terrorism if people of another faith carry on the same thing? Terrorism. Extremism. Fundamentalism. Violence. Killing innocents. What exactly do we talk; or justify about? Is it the ...

BNP chief Akhtar Mengal, Asma Jahangir and SCBA Secretary Asad Manzoor participate in the seminar on Tuesday. — INP ISLAMABAD: Balochistan National Party (BNP) chief Akhtar Mengal has called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) exploitative if it does not equally benefit all the provinces, particularly Balochistan, which is the epicentre of the project. Mr Mengal was speaking at a seminar ...

Radio Pakistan, a state-run media on Tuesday falsely misused the remarks of the US Department of State Spokesperson John Kirby about the Durand line. Kirby was wrongly quoted by Radio Pakistan that the US government recognized the Durand Line as permanent border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The falsely remarks by Pakistani media comes at a time when the US and ...

KABUL: The US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in an unannounced visit to Kabul on Tuesday said that the US troops would continue support Afghan forces in anti-terrorism war and would finish the mission has been started. “We will continue to work hard together with Afghan forces to finish the mission we started,” Carter said in a press conference with ...

US: The former top American diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad has said Pakistan has been playing a dangerous game since the Taliban group was overthrown. In his testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Khalilzad said Pakistani proxies pose a severe threat to coalition and Afghan forces and civilians. “Indeed, Pakistani policy is the principal cause of the ongoing conflict in ...

PAKISTAN: Around 800 flour mills have reportedly shut down in Pakistan as Afghanistan has stopped import of wheat from the country. According to local media reports, citing the relevant authorities in Pakistan, the export of flour from Pakistan to Afghanistan was suspended temporarily on Tuesday after authorities in the neighbouring country increased custom duty on the commodity . The reports ...

A top former American diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad has said the United States should aid to Pakistan in a bid to turn the country into second North Korea, accusing the country for supporting the regional terrorism. Khalilzad who has also served as the US Ambassador to Afghanistan has said the United States specifically the country’s lawmakers have became confident that the ...

KABUL: The US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has arrived in Afghanistan to meet with the Afghan officials and US commanders based in Afghanistan. The visit by Carter follows days after Washington and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders renewed pledge to support Afghanistan and maintain forces in the country. He is expected to meet with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...