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US President Donald Trump on Monday ruled out quick talks with the Taliban, following a wave of bloody large-scale attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul. “I don’t think we are prepared to talk right now,” Trump said, throwing into question Washington’s strategy of pushing the group toward the negotiating table. “We don’t want to talk with the Taliban,” Trump said. “They are ...

Asma was a third-year student at a medical college in Abbottabad — Photo by H. Farhan. A special team was formed on Monday to investigate the killing of Asma Rani, a third-year medical student who was reportedly shot dead in Kohat on Saturday for refusing a marriage proposal. District Police Officer (DPO) Abbas Majeed Marwat formed a team comprising six senior ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has urged Afghanistan’s international friends to adopt a united front against countries supporting and equipping terrorists. In a joint press conference with visiting Indonesian counterparty Joko Widodo, Ghani lambasted the Taliban for claiming barbaric incidents of violence in the country and asked the global community to put pressure on supporters of terrorism for ending the decades old conflict in ...

PESHAWAR: President Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan said that democratic process has been facing threats, and if this time again attempts are made to derail the system they will resist against it. “Some talk about [installing] technocrats, some about a national government. We feel threats to democracy, but all unconstitutional steps will be resisted and democracy defended,” Wali said during ...

کراچی میں شہید نقیب اللہ محسود کے ماورائے عدالت قتل کے خلاف جنوبی وزیرستان محسود قبائل تحفظ قومی موومنٹ کے پیدل مارچ نے بنوں میں پریس کلب کے سامنے احتجاجی دھر نا دیا ان کے ساتھ مختلف سیاسی جماعتوں کے کارکن اور طلباء بھی شریک ہوئے مظاہرین نے ماورائے قتل کے تحقیقات اور انور راؤ کو پھانسی دینے کا مطالبہ ...

KABUL: The death toll from a suicide bombing carried out through an ambulance has risen to 95, with 151 others wounded near the Jamuriat Hospital in Kabul on Saturday, officials said. Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Majrooh told the media the toll might still rise because many of the wounded were said to be in critical condition. Baryali Helali, head of Afghanistan Government Media and Information ...

KABUL:  The war affected families from Waziristan organized a big rally in Khost province against the ongoing Pashtun genocide in Pakistan, human rights violations in FATA and the extra judicial killing of Naqib Mahsood in a fake police encounter in Karachi. A large number of Pashtuns from Waziristan participated in the rally and demanded justice for Pashtuns in Pakistan and ...

KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai has said he would not be against the United States, but “what the US government is doing in Afghanistan, is unacceptable”. “The presence of the foreign troops has caused the increase of corruption and drug production in Afghanistan,” Karzai addressed a gathering in a literature festival held Friday in India’s city of Jaipur. He pointed ...

PESHAWAR: The Indonesian president has suggested the formation of a three-nation committee of religious scholars to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. Currently on an official visit to Islamabad, Joko Widodo floated the proposal at a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Mamnoon Hussain in Islamabad on Friday night. He said Islamic scholars from Indonesia, Afghanistan and Pakistan could promote a peaceful settlement of ...

KABUL: The United States Department of Treasury on Thursday announced that six individuals supporting the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist network have been designated as Special Designated Global Terrorists in a bid to expose and disrupt the financing of the group. Four of the individuals – Abdul Samad Sani, Abdul Qadeer Basir Abdul Baseer, Hafiz Mohammed Popalzai, and Maulawi Inayatullah – ...