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The leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network Ayman al-Zawahiri has pledged allegiance to the newly-appointed supreme leader of the Taliban group Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada. Al-Zawahiri in a 14 minute recording has said “As leader of the al Qaeda organization for jihad, I extend my pledge of allegiance once again, the approach of Osama to invite the Muslim nation to ...

The US President Barack Obama has approved broader role for the US military to assist the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) to fight the Taliban-led insurgency. According to reports, the broader role granted to the US military will allow them to accompany Afghan forces and assist them more proactively on the battlefield. US defense officials have said the ...

US: The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said a stable and peaceful Afghanistan is a shared objective of both India and the United States. Modi made the remarks during a speech in the joint meeting of the US Congress during his visit to the country. “A commitment to rebuild a peaceful, and stable and prosperous Afghanistan our shared objective,” ...

  DUBAI. Modi and Qatar’s ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who visited India in March 2015, signed seven agreements to strengthen ties, according to the official Twitter account of India’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Vikas Swarup. Modi also met Qatari businessmen and encouraged them to invest more in India, calling it “a land of opportunity”. Qatar is one of ...

Taliban gunmen stormed a court complex in a city south of Kabul Sunday, killing at least seven people in the insurgents’ third so-called “revenge” attack for last month’s execution of Taliban-linked prisoners. The attack in Pul-i-Alam, capital of volatile Logar province, also left 23 prosecutors wounded as they were meeting to decide the fate of six newly arrested Taliban militants. ...

ABBOTTABAD: Saima, the girl who eloped with the alleged help of her friend Ambreen in Abbotabad, reappeared on Sunday and stated the deceased Ambreen knew nothing about her marriage. “She knew nothing about my marriage and she was not my friend,” said Saima, while exclusively talking to DawnNews. She also asked the authorities for security, as she said her husband’s ...

Afghanistan has for the first time appointed a woman in the leadership of the Afghan Attorney General Office, taking yet another major step towards increasing the Afghan women share in the government and empowerment of the Afghan women. Ms Maliha Hassan has been appointed as the deputy finance and administrative chief in the Afghan Attorney General Office. She has served ...

The landmark Salma Dam project was inaugurated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in western Herat province of Afghanistan today. The project has been executed and implemented by WAPCOS Ltd, a Government of India Undertaking under ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation. “Afghanistan & India have long and continued relations ...

South Waziristan is inhabited by Pashtun tribes of Ahmadzai Wazir, Masood (locally pronounced Maseed) and Bittani and the main Pashtun tribes in North Waziristan are Utmanzai Wazir and Daur. Sections of these tribes also live in the adjacent districts of Tank, Lakki Marwat and Bannu. Both the districts of South and North Waziristan (known as political agencies as parts of ...

‘Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it’ (Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: Vintage 1991) The quote highlights the dilemma faced by women everywhere, every day. Men decide how women should dress, what they should wear, how they should behave, where they should go, what work she should do, how much ...