MOSCOW: Russia have included Maria Sharapova in their Olympic tennis team despite the star player being suspended over a positive test for the banned drug meldonium, the country’s tennis federation said on Thursday. “By the end of the first week of Roland Garros, the question of Sharapova’s participation at the Olympic Games should be resolved,” Shamil Tarpischev, the head of ...
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US Senator Dana Rohrabacher has said Pakistan is a reliable partner fir terrorists and not the United States, warning that the provision of millions in aid to Pakistani government in fight against terrorism would have a reverse outcome. The US Senator was speaking to Voice of America’s Afghanistan during an exclusive interview. Senator Rohrabacher further added that Islamabad considers the ...
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According to an AP count: Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president. ─AP WASHINGTON: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, citing its own delegate count. Trump was put over the top in ...
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KABUL: The Russian Foreign Ministry has said the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are as active as ever in Afghanistan. There are concerns that the loyalists of the group will attempt to expand activities and foothold across Afghanistan and into the Central Asia. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters “The ...
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In the words of Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius, said that the FCR is “obnoxious to all recognized modern principles governing the dispensation of justice” Federally administered tribal areas are situated at the northwest of Pakistan; it comprises almost seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions. The area is entirely inhabited by ...
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AFGHANISTAN: The Ministry of Interior has said the Taliban group militants are in a critical condition following the death of their leader in Pakistan. Sediq Sediqi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, told reporters in Kabul that the intelligence findings of the ministry shows the militants are suffering in the battlefield following the death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. He said ...
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Awami National Party provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak. BUNER: The provincial government has been accused of being hand in glove in various cases of corruption and land grabbing. The allegations were levelled by Awami National Party provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak. The ANP leader was addressing a rally in Totalai, Buner on Wednesday. “The incumbent government has lost the ...
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AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan government has called on the Taliban group to renounce violence or face the same fate as their leaders. The statement by the Afghan government was given shortly after the group announced the successor of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a US drone strike in Pakistan. The government said ‘Taliban groups have yet another opportunity to end and renounce ...
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US: The United States has added two Pakistan-based militant groups to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists, the US Department of State said Wednesday. “The Department of State has designated both the Tariq Gidar Group (TGG) and Jama’at ul Dawa al-Qu’ran (JDQ) as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under section 1(b) of Executive Order (E.O.) 13224,” a statement by ...
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روژه بيا راروانه ده او دا هر کال په مسلمانانو راځي چې ورسره د اسلامي عقيدې تر مخه برکتونه او ثوابونه تړلي دي. نو هسې راياد مې شو چې د طالبانو د وژل شوي مشر ملا اختر منصور سره مې په يوه روژه کښې څه خبرې شوې وې او هغه درسره شريکوم. زمونږ د کلي ګل زرې ترور چې به ...
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