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NEW DELHI: After the attack on the IAF base at Pathankot on January 2, India in February wrote to the UN calling for immediate action to list Azhar under the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee. China has again blocked India’s bid at the UN to ban JeM chief Masood Azhar, the mastermind of the Pathankot terror attack. According to highly placed sources, ...

AFGHANISTAN: The former Afghan defense minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi slammed the Taliban group for assassinating the Afghan security officials on the orders of Pakistan’s military intelligence, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). He was speaking during a gathering to commemorate the first death anniversary of Hekmatullah Haqmal who was assassinated in Helmand province a year ago. Mohammadi hailed the Afghan security forces ...

As I read the news from Kohistan where a 15 years old Pari Bibi is shot dead by her brother Kamran in the area of Palas police station. The Express Tribune (a Pakistani English daily) detailed the case as “suspicious being romantically involved with a boy of the same village”. By scrolling down the paper, I got several other honor ...

Hundreds of Afghan and Syrian refugees entered into a violent clash in Greece amid ongoing refugee crisis in the Greek and Macedonian territories. According to the officials in Greece quoted by local media, several people were injured in the clash that erupted on Wednesday night. At least two of the refugees are in critical condition as over seven people were ...

KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday met with Chief of the Feroz Koh Foundation (Turquoise Mountain). Head of the Feroz Koh Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture, Waheed Khalili and teachers of the institute were also present on the occasion. Hamid Karzai commended the institute for creating exquisite pieces of arts. He also thanked Britain’s Prince Charles for establishment ...

VIENNA: Austria on Wednesday moved to further tighten migrants’ access to the country by placing tough new restrictions on asylum eligibility and making it easier to reject asylum seekers at the border. As of mid-May, the government will only accept cases of refugees facing threats to their safety in a neighbouring transit country or whose relatives are already in Austria. ...

Sikh children worship at the historical Bhai Beba Singh temple at Hashtnagri, Peshawar, on Wednesday.    PESHAWAR: Almost three hundred years old Sikh temple located in Jogiwara Street of Hashtnagri, an ancient residential area of Peshawar city, was reopened for worship on Wednesday. The temple was reopened during a ceremony wherein Evacuee Trust Property Board Chairman Siddique-ul-Farooq was chief guest. ...

Afghanistan has opposed deportation of Afghan asylum seekers and refugees in large number from Europe. “For now the Afghan Government is opposite [sic] for the forcible deportation because the situation is not good in Afghanistan,” said Hafiz Ahmad Miakhel, media advisor to the ministry. “Most of the Afghans leave the country because of the insecurity, some districts are under the ...

Court says the plea was filed on ‘unreasonable’ grounds. ISLAMABAD: A special court of custom, excise and taxation on Wednesday refused to register a money laundering case against model Ayyan Ali. Giving decision on an application filed by customs officials, the court said the plea was filed on ‘unreasonable’ grounds. Special judge of custom court Rana Aftab after hearing the ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has withdrawn the condition of securing a no-objection certificate from it for foreign tourists to visit Malakand division comprising seven districts. The condition was imposed in 2010 following the military operation against militants in Swat. The authorities toughened the process of the NOC issuance to foreigners for Malakand tour in the wake of the 2011 ...