Pashtun Times Latest News

“The world order has never been so unstable as it is now.  No-one is safe, be it Western established democracies or autocratic regimes. One could never imagine the strikes in the heart of Paris, Brussels, London, Spain or the parliament of India in the era of cold war. It looks as if, with the fall of Berlin Wall and the disintegration of USSR the whole world ...

US Marines carry a wounded comrade in Afghanistan PHOTO: REUTERS WASHINGTON: A Pakistani intelligence officer paid $200,000 to an extremist network to facilitate a deadly suicide bomb attack on CIA operatives at a base in Afghanistan in 2009, according to a declassified US government document obtained by an independent research group. The heavily redacted document obtained by the National Security Archive, ...

US Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch says Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian Americans are often the target of threats because of their appearance or religion.─AFP/File WASHINGTON: Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian Americans are often the target of threats because of their appearance or religion, according to US Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch. On Wednesday, the US Department of ...

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Thursday passed the law governing marriage functions, disallowing unreasonable illumination, display of fireworks and dowry and causing nuisance to neighbours “beyond reasonable celebrations”. The law (Clause 3) says that a person celebrating his (own) or organising marriage of any other person shall not decorate or cause to be decorated any street, road, or public park ...

The deputy Chief of Army Staff General Murad Ali Khan Murad said the anti-government armed militant groups’ only achievement during the year would be defeat and abjection during the current year. In his speech during a gathering in Kabul, Gen. Murad said the Afghan forces are prepared for all type of campaign against the terror groups. He said the Afghan ...

PESHAWAR: ‘Corridor Front’ launched in all parties joint meeting on Thursday, held at Al-Markaz-e-Islami in Peshawar. The meeting was called by Pakhtunkhwas Ulasi Tehreek (PUT) and Dr. Said Alam Mehsud, leader of PUT, presided the move. Political parties participated in the joint meeting were ANP, ANP (Wali), JI, QWP, Mazdoor Kisaan Party, PTI and Awami Workers Party. All the parties unanimously ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has warned that the US interference in internal affairs of Afghanistan is not acceptable, pointing towards Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks regarding National Unity Government duration. In his speech during a gathering in Kabul, the former President said Kerry’s remarks regarding the Government of National Unity are a clear interference in internal affairs ...

WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday expressed concern over the current human rights situation in Afghanistan, noting widespread disregard for the rule of law and official impunity for violators of human rights in 2015. “Widespread disregard for the rule of law and official impunity for those who committed human rights abuses were serious problems. The government did not consistently prosecute ...

A dissident commander of the Taliban group has claimed that the group’s newly-appointed Supreme Leader Mullah Akhtar is not alive. The Taliban commander loyal to Mullah Mohammad Rasool has released a video message saying the Taliban group leaders should pledge allegiance to Mullah Rasool. Security sources privy of the development have confirmed that two Taliban commanders have pledged allegiance to ...

DAMASCUS: Syrians went to the polls on Wednesday in areas controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for parliamentary elections dismissed by the opposition as illegitimate. The vote coincides with the beginning of a second round of UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva aimed at ending the devastating five-year conflict, with Assad’s future a key sticking point. Around 7,200 polling stations opened ...