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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Eid-ul-Fitar is a religious festival which is celebrated by the Muslims with great pomp and show. In this occasion of happiness and gladness, people purchase different things and share happiness with each other’s and take part in different cultural activities. These are salubrious activities which promote and build up human values and cultural orientations. In Pakistan, ...

LANDI KOTAL: The bus service between Peshawar and Jalalabad in Afghanis­tan via the Torkham border has been lying suspended for over a month as the Pakistan government has refused to give security clearance to three of the five transport companies operating the service. The service was suspended on May 30 when the last date for Afghan nationals entering Pakistan without ...

The Afghanistan national cricket team will face Scotland for the first One Day Intenational (ODI) match at Edinburgh on Monday. Afghanistan will play two ODI matches with Scotland ahead of appearing for a series of matches against Ireland. The second ODI match between Afghanistan and Scotland will be played at Edinburgh on Wednesday. The Afghanistan National Cricket Board (ACB) announced ...

Report claims the two former army chiefs are holding separate accounts in Swiss bank Julius Baer. PHOTO: AFP In a startling revelation, London-based investigative journalist James D Crickton has claimed former army generals Pervez Musharraf and Ashfaq Parvez Kayani possess multi-million dollar Swiss bank accounts. In his blog on World Press Platform, Crickton said he came to know that the two former army ...

There is no denying the fact that international isolation of Pakistan has significantly intensified in the last year and a half. The falling apart of the previous deal on the purchase of F-16s with US, the political and military setback that the country had to face with the first US drone strike in Balochistan taking out Taliban leader Mullah Mansour, ...

Pakistani establishment has been making naked interference into Afghan’s affairs: Latif Khan Afridi Afghans are Pashtuns and historically Pashtunkhwa was a part of Afghanistan, and there was nothing wrong in what Mahmood Khan Achakzai has said, Latif Afridi talks to THE PASHTUN TIMES. Interviewed by Aurangzeb Zalmay THE PASHTUN TIMES

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani traveled to Saudi Arabiaat on the head of a high-level delegation and performed Umrah, his office said on Saturday. Ghani and his delegation landed late on Friday in Jeddah, from where they went to Makkah and offered the Islamic ritual at Masjid Al Haram, a statement from Presidential Palace. They offered prayers at the holy ...

TURKEY: A Turkish imam was reportedly suspended after pieces of cucumber was found in his rectum after the doctors examined for severe abdominal pain. The 39-year-old imam hailing from the Central Anatolian province was admitted to hospital last week after suffering from severe abdominal pain and bleeding. According to the Hurriyet Daily News, the allegedly removed pieces of cucumber from ...

The newly-appointed supreme leader of the Taliban group Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada has promised to bring reforms under his leadership including the women’s rights. Akhundzada made the commitment in his message released on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, saying “I will try for better reform of courts and efficient conduct of affairs, including release of the prisoners, treatment of the injured, the ...

QUETTA: Leaders of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) in Switzerland have said that a six-day camp set up at the Broken Chair in Geneva to highlight human rights violations in Balochistan has ended. BRP president in Switzerland Sher Baz Bugti, vice president Qadir Bugti and secretary general Mohammad Nawaz Bugti said in a joint statement that the objective of the ...