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KABUL: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is concerned about forcibly deportation of Afghan refugees and expresses strongly its worry about lack of extension of refugee card by government of Pakistan. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi in a meeting with Mohammad Hanif Atmar, National Security Adviser, said that the UNHCR is concerned about ...

AFGHANISTAN: At least 24 Taliban militants have reportedly been killed in the latest infighting among the rival groups in western Herat province which ended late on Tuesday. According to the local government officials, the incident took place in Pashtoon Zarghoon district after the supporters of Taliban Chief Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada clashed with the dissident Taliban leader Mullah Rasool. Provincial governor’s ...

Book Review: India VS Pakistan: Why can’t we just be friends? Kashmir — Terrorism — N-Bomb Husain Haqqani is a well-known political philosopher, journalist, academic, and formerly Pakistan’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, then the United States. He has a comprehensive command of the affairs of South Asia. His books have been well received for their thoughtful analyses and his considered ...

Once again, no Pakistani university found a mark in the top 100 of the Times Higher Education’s (THE) Asia University Rankings 2016 released on Monday. The expansion of the THE Asia university rankings to include 200 institutions, however, allowed two Pakistani universities ─ Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, and National University of Science and Technology (NUST) ─ to win places in ...

A British man has been arrested for attempting to murder the US Presidential candidate Donald Trump, it has been reported. The 20-year-old Michael Steven Sandford tried to grab a police officer’s gun at a rally in Las Vegas and has confessed that he was attempting to murder Donald Trump. He appeared before a judge in Nevada and was remanded in ...

KABUL: The Hezb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has reportedly issued new impossible-to-meet demands to sign a peace agreement with the Afghan government. An official privy to the development has told The Associated Press that the new demands include cancellation of pacts with the United States, a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops and that it be signed by ...

The Chabahar Port is the start of the new cold war -a cold war between China and India which will perhaps last till 2050s.  Actually it is just the tip of the iceberg. This is the start of an inevitable new cold war. Real war is not fought with weapons. It is fought financially with diplomacy as its weapon. It is ...

Children scavenge through the garbage in this file photo. ISLAMABAD: Nearly 39 per cent of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty with the highest rates in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Balochistan. Though the national poverty rates have dropped from 55 to 39pc since 2004. According to Pakistan’s first ever Multidim­ensional Poverty Index (MPI), launched on Monday, progress across ...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: There has been a shoot out in Orlando, where some Islamic radical has targeted a club of homosexuals leading to heavy casualties. Words will never define our grief and our condolences are with families of the victims. Furthermore, this vicious inhuman-act is condemnable and an abhorrent rampage. On the contrary, this attack coincides with two different occasions: firstly, ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz has said the Afghan government should offer Taliban something they cannot gain in battlefield in a bid to bring peace and stability in Afghanistan. Sartaj further added “We can only bring the Taliban on the table using our influence, but ultimately Afghanistan has to talk with them. They (Afghan government) should strengthen ...