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A statement of Mehmood Khan Achakzai has tremored both Pakistani social and electronic media and the aftershocks of this statement continue and will remain for sometime in media. Mehmood Khan, a veteran Pashtun nationalist politician, cited Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a part of Afghan homeland and called himself Afghan. His statement fumed self-proclaimed uncles and aunties of the state. This is ...

Initially let’s put a glance at the history of saffron as recently some reports suggested that the cash crop to Afghanistan came from abroad which is a total falsehood echo. The word saffron goes back as far as 10,000 years. Saffron is said to be derived from the world “Zarparan” in Dari which means a flower with its stigma valued ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Monday said Afghanistan achieved what it wanted to achieve at a recent NATO summit in Warsaw, the Polish capital. On Saturday, NATO countries agreed at the summit to maintain troop numbers in Afghanistan and reiterated a funding pledge of $5 billion a year for Afghan forces until 2020. Ghani told reporters in Kabul that Afghanistan ...

“By bombing and droning Afghans or Afghan villages, you will not win this war because it isn’t here, we are victims”, Karzai said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged for more focus on rooting out militants in Pakistan, joining the Afghan government officials who are criticizing Pakistan for allowing ...

Frustrated with the persistent support of certain elements in Pakistan to militant groups, several senior US lawmakers are expected to ask Pakistan if it is a friend of foe of Washington. The senior lawmakers and their witnesses are going to discuss the issue during a hearing that would be jointly held by House Subcommittees on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade and ...

“In the context of Pakistan; socialists were offering me that Lahore will be Moscow, Islamabad will be Leningrad and I have to live in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Muslim brothers were offering me to accept Lahore as Makka, Islamabad as Madina and I should accept to live in Jizan without identity.” Human beings are constructed of genes; the basic brick is made of proteins. We ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has demanded the handover of the Afghan militants based in Pakistan and those who are opposing peace talks with the Afghan government. Speaking during a press conference following his return from Poland, President Ghani said the Afghan government wants Pakistan to handover those militants opposing peace. He said the message of Afghanistan to Pakistan is ...

  “I think I am fit for the game,” says Afridi. — AP/File KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has denied all rumours circling his retirement, saying that he will continue representing the country in Twenty20 Internationals. In an interview with BBC Urdu on Sunday, Afridi said he is not eager to make a comeback to the 50-over format of ...

Is Pakistan still busy in ‘Hide and Seek’? In a reaction to President Ashraf Ghani’s statements on the lack of Pakistan’s interest in fight against terrorism, Islamabad has apparently made efforts to pretend the reality is not what Afghanistan says. President Ghani in an addressing to the NATO summit in the capital of Poland had said that his country was ...

PESHAWAR: The medical business in Peshawar city of Pakistan has suffered significantly following the Torkham incident last month which led to the decreased movement of Afghans to the country who were mainly traveling for medical care. According to reports, half of patients at the private hospitals in Peshawar were the Afghans. Neurosurgeon Dr Tariq Khan, who is head of the ...