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KABUL: After deadly Kabul suicide attack, Afghan government ordered the Afghan National Security Forces for the ‘no mercy policy’ against militants to eliminate “the enemy everywhere they are spotted”, officials said in a press conference on Thursday. “President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the Afghan National Security Forces to repress the armed insurgents in every corner and nook of the country,” Dawa ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has no assets abroad, but continues to receive colossal amounts from his son, Hussain Nawaz, who is settled in the UK, reveal the statements of MNAs’ assets released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday. According to the statements of assets for 2015, released amidst the ongoing controversy around the Panama Papers leak, ...

MINGORA: For Razia, the seven years she spent as a victim of Swara, a child marriage custom to settle blood feuds, are the ugliest and harshest of her life. Born in Peshawar and currently living in Swat with adoptive parents, the 27-year-old says her Swara days were full of physical and psychological abuse. She strongly feels had her parents been ...

    Courtesy story by Lt. Stephen Webber Personnel from the Ministries of Defense and the Interior assembled for the second training in a series on force management within the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. The eight-week training hosted by Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan’s Capabilities Development Directorate was designed to expose the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces to ...

A large number of girls’ schools have been hit by terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but bad governance and cultural limitations have also played a role in the abysmal state of girls’ education in the province. According to a report by the Conflict Monitoring Center – an organization that monitors anti-state violence in South Asia – more than 758 schools have ...

© CBC Sarah Lambersky was breastfeeding her 16-month-old daughter at Rosemount Community Centre in Thornhill. © CBC The mother says she has never been asked to stop breastfeeding before and wants other women to know they have the legal right to do so in public. A city official in Vaughan, Ont., has apologized to a mother who was asked to move to a ...

“Journalists in Pakistan need to be trained on the fact that a small local story is very important than the religious narrative of anti-Israel and anti-India international content.”  Community journalism is an essential part of contemporary society and is the lifeline to help resolve issues that affect a community. A good democracy is the one which devolves powers to grassroots ...

اسلام آباد: اے این پی کے مرکزی سیکریٹری جنرل اورنگزیب کاسی نے پارٹی سربراہ مور بی بی نسیم ولی کی پریس کانفرنس میں اس بات کی بھر پور حمایت کی ھے کہ ملک میں کرپشن کی بنیاد فوجی جنرل ضیا الحق نے رکھی ، جو آج ناسور بن کر تقربا” تمام سیاسی پارٹیوں سمیت فوج کو بھی اپنے لپیٹ میں ...

If you had been born hundred years ago, you would have had no chance to know about all the incidents and other news that happen in the world. There was a time when people had health, education, transport and communication problems. With the passage of time, science made everything easier in twentieth century. Science has brought a drastic change in ...