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Sami-ur-Rehman Almost in every speech and statement the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman, Imran Khan, has claimed to bring “revolution” in health sector of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where his party is leading a coalition government. His political slogans – which still continue even after when his party has formed government in KPK – may impress others but not the one who ...

KABUL: Afghanistan on Wednesday evinced a keen interest in exporting commodities and minerals to different destinations around the globe through Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar. Economy Minister Abdul Sattar Murad, currently on a visit the neighbouring country, met the Chabahar Free Zone managing director and other officials in Sistan-Balochistan province. The state-run Iranian news agency, IRNA, quoted Murad as saying ...

Days after a tragic incident in United king involving the suicide of a former Afghan translator who had served with the British forces in Afghanistan, two more translators are facing deportation after receiving warnings from the authorities. According to the local media reports, the two translators who have previously served with the British forces in Afghanistan have applied for UK ...

The Pakistani authorities have opposed military action against the Afghan Taliban leaders days after President Ghani called on Islamabad to take actions against the group’s leaderships based in Peshawar and Quetta cities. The country’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz has said such a policy had not brought results for 14 long years. “Afghanistan has been insisting that if the peace ...

ROME: Improved sea conditions are permitting the Italian navy to resume a complex operation to recover a sunken fishing boat with the bodies of hundreds of migrants inside. Navy vessels are set to head Wednesday to the site of the April 2015 shipwreck, in which the immense loss of life spurred Europe to step up patrols of the Mediterranean, where ...

KABUL: Finland and Afghanistan are working on a draft agreement on the future of Afghan asylum seekers in the North European country, a top official announced on Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Permanent Secretary to Finland’s Ministry of Interior Päivi Nerg said her country was dealing with the mass immigration issue in two ways. One way ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Civil Society is deeply concerned over the growing incidents of honor crimes. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), 1,276 incidents of honour killings were reported in the country from Feb. 2014 to Feb. 2016 but the First Information Reports (FIRs) were filed in only 400 cases. Moreover, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Human ...

BANNU: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the establishment of an international airport in Bannu, alongside other development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Tuesday. “We will build an international airport in Bannu,” the premier told a cheering crowd. “Repeat with me: This is ‘Naya Pakistan’,” he hit out at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) with their oft-repeated slogan. In an address ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will acquire F-16s from elsewhere if the United States (US) does not arrange funding for the sale, Sartaj Aziz, the prime minister’s adviser on foreign affairs, cautioned the US as both countries lock horns over the purchase of the fighter jets. Pakistan had earlier reached an understanding with the US for buying eight F-16 planes. Under the deal, ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on Taliban to renounce violence and join hands with the other countrymen in rebuilding the country if ‘they consider themselves sons of Afghanistan’. In a statement released following a series of deadly attacks across the country since the group announced its spring offensive, Karzai said the war has been imposed on the ...