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The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the regional intelligence agencies and terrorist groups are imposing on the Afghan nation and have a critical role in the ongoing violence in the country. A statement by MoD said the terrorists are deployed to Afghanistan with full financial and military support under the name of holy war. MoD in its statement further added ...

A tower higher than Burj Khalifa, Emirate’s existing record-braking skyscraper, is set to be built in Dubai city of the United Arab Emirates. The announcement was made by Emaar Properties, unveiling ‘The Tower’ which is worth $1 billion and would be “a notch” taller than the Burj Khalifa. The Chairman of Emaar Properties Mohamed Alabbar said the tower is due ...

GWADAR: The multi-million dollar Gwadar port is set to be at “full operation” by the end of the year, a Chinese official said Tuesday, part of Beijing’s ambitious economic plans in the region. Gwadar port will see roughly one million tonnes of cargo going through it by 2017, said Zhang Baozhong, chairman of the company in charge of development, the ...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s top cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Sheikh has justified a ban on driving for females, saying women behind the wheels would be “exposed to evil”, reported The Independent. Although driving is not technically illegal for women in Saudi Arabia, it is the only country in the world that prohibits women from doing so by not issuing licenses. The cleric ...

White guilt is understandable: but it should not stop us seeking Human Rights for all European colonisation killed over a hundred million people. Industrialization allowed pillaging on a scale never before imagined. The Slave Trade, The Sykes-Picot Agreement, the partition of India and Pakistan, and the tortured histories of colonised countries impact to this day the lives of countless millions ...

PESHAWAR: Women living in distress, afflicting the violence on daily basis are deprived of their rights, moreover they do not have access to justice and those who manage to reach the district courts are unable financially to afford to precede their litigation. To support females deprived of justice, Blue Veins a Peshawar based organization has initiated a project “Strengthening District ...

Manhandling by Military personnel, journalists boycotted media coverage of Temporarily Displaced Persons (TDPs) returning to South Waziristan Agency BANNU: Local Journalists boycotted media coverage of “The Repatriation of TDPs”, as a protest against their stoppage and manhandling by military personnel during coverage of the recent visit of Governor-Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to South Waziristan Agency. They told THE PASHTUN TIMES that military personnel of Pakistan Army constantly misbehaved ...

PESHAWAR: Pakistani security forces have evicted more than 300 Afghan families from their houses in Landikotal near the Torkham border, officials said on Tuesday. Dozens of houses were razed by paramilitary troops during a clean-up operation in the Bacha Maina area of the dusty border town — home to many Afghan families. The demolition-eviction campaign, involving heavy machinery, came after ...

WASHINGTON: In recognition of her efforts to improve the quality of life for women in Afghanistan, First Lady Rula Ghani has been selected for the prestigious Lotus Leadership Award of Asia Foundation. The first lady would be presented the award along with Carnegie Corporation at a glittering function in New York on May 11, a press release said on Tuesday. “Afghan ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) was rocked by another scandal on Monday, when it emerged that a 20-year-old paralysed woman – who was being treated at the hospital’s surgical intensive care unit – was allegedly raped by a staff member. But while a case has been registered, with the Prime Minister’s Inspection Team overseeing matters, police have ...