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Since clashes between the Afghan border police and Pakistani paramilitary forces resumed Monday at the Torkham crossing, a senior Pakhtun nationalist leader Asfandyar Wali Khan called on the two countries to exercise extreme cautions to put an end to the skirmishes through dialogues. Head of the Awami National Party voiced concern over clashes erupted between border forces of the two ...

The Subtle Distortions A typical example of oversimplification can be observed in a piece by Nadeem Farooq Paracha, otherwise an objective writer, titled ‘The misplaced image of the warring Pakhtun’ published in Dawn on June 12, 2016. It is now almost five hundred years since the peoples called in history the Pashtuns, Afghans and Sulemanis dubbed by the colonizers as ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan was summoned in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) over a clash between the Afghan and Pakistani forces in Torkham. MoFA said a strong protest was lodged with the Pakistani Ambassador Syed Abrar Hussain regarding the latest clash. The deputy foreign minister for administrative affairs Dr. Nasir Ahmad Andisha reminded the Pakistani ...

The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz has said the Haqqani Network was not a simple issue and could have caused a blowback. Sartaj was speaking a joint sitting of the Senate committees on defence and foreign affairs which mainly focused on the issue of the cancellation of F-16s sale by US to Pakistan. The US congress refused to to ...

A senior Pakistani army officer has died of his wounds after he was injured during a clash with the Afghan forces in Torkham. (Dawn News Photo) According to the local media reports, the senior army officer, Major Ali jawad Changezi, died at the Combined military Hospital in Peshawar today. This is the first official confirmation of a Pakistani army officer ...

TORKHAM: Fresh clashes have reportedly among the Afghan and Pakistani forces in Torkham, hours after a heavy clash broke out between the two sides. According to reports, the clash resumed around 4 pm local time but there are no other information available regarding the incident. The clash between the two sides erupted late on Sunday night after the Afghan forces ...

KABUL: The death anniversary of the legendary Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir was observed in Kabul today by a number of the Afghan artists, including singers and media supporters. The participants who paid tribute to the legendary singer said Ahmad Zahir will remain unique and will not be replaced by any other singer in the history of the Afghan music. Ahmad ...

ضلع بنوں میں20گھنٹے کی ظالمانہ بجلی لوڈ شیڈنگ کے خلاف وکلاء برادری نے بنوں پریس کلب کے سامنے احتجاجی مظاہرہ کیا۔ مظاہرین سے خطاب کرتے ہوئے ڈسٹرکٹ بار ایسوسی ایشن کے صدر وسیم خان ایڈووکیٹ، عرفان پیرزادہ ایڈووکیٹ، نعمت علی ایڈوکیٹ، مطیع اللہ جانایڈووکیٹ، نثار ایڈوکیٹ، شاہ قیاز باچا ایڈووکیٹ اور دیگر نے کہا کہ ضلع بنوں میں واپڈا پیسکو ...

KABUL: The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan and President Ghani’s Special Envoy Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal and Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz discussed regarding the latest skirmish among the Afghan and Pakistani forces in Torkham. The Embassy of Afghanistan in Pakistan in a statement said the issue was discussed during a telephone conversation as Zakhilwal is currently in Kabul. The statement ...