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ANKARA – Turkey’s forcible return of around 30 Afghan asylum seekers just hours after the European Union (EU)-Turkey refugee deal came into force shows that implementing the deal would risk refugees’ lives from the word go, Amnesty International (AI) said. The organization has received credible information indicating that Turkey violated European and international law by forcibly returning the asylum-seekers, who ...

KARACHI: The Foreign Office has stated that 84 Pakistani nationals who are being held at Moscow airport since early morning are likely to be deported by Thursday evening. “The Foreign office is in touch with Russian embassy in Islamabad on the matter,” he said. Russia deported 48 Pakistanis yesterday, who were part of a group that was held after landing ...

The Hezb-e-Islami party led by the notorious militants leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is seeking power-sharing with the Afghan government in exchange for peace deal, it has been reported. The Afghan high peace council is busy negotiating peace deal with the delegation of Hezb-e-Islami party sent by Hekmatyar on 17th March. According to the officials privy to the development, the party is ...

The authorities in Netherlands are planning to close five more prisons as the falling crime rate leaves the cells empty, it has been reported. The decision by the authorities to close the prisons has been taken in a bid to prevent the useless cost incurred by empty cells, the country’s justice minister Ard van der Steur told parliament. Van der Steur ...

Trump and Cruz call for increased surveillance of Muslims after Brussels attacks. ─AP/File WASHINGTON: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Muslims were failing to report suspicious activity and they must do more to help prevent attacks such as those that killed at least 30 people in Belgium. “When they see trouble they have to report it, they are not ...

BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur advises Afridi to stay away from politics. — Reuters/File NEW DELHI: Indian cricket’s secretary Anurag Thakur on Wednesday warned Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi to avoid giving political statements, the Press Trust of India reported. Thakur, who is secretary Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), took note of Afridi’s statement during the toss of ...

President Ashraf Ghani opened the 4th G7+ ministerial conference in Kabul on Wednesday. The group which is built up by countries having recent experience of conflict will discuss peace and reconciliation efforts pursued in member countries, economic resilience, New Deal implementation and localizing the SDGs. Tight security measures have been taken for the two-day forum in Kabul. During his inaugural ...

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KABUL – President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday vowed to boost education and literacy rate in Afghanistan. “The government is determined to utilize all ways and means to boot education, improve education system and increase the rate of literacy in Afghanistan,” said President Ghani in his address to inaugurate new educational year. Both the government entities and citizens should work ...

BRUSSELS – The latest attacks at Brussels airport and a metro station mark another low by terrorists, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, following the explosions which caused at least 13 death in the morning. “I am appalled by the bombings this morning at Zavantem airport and the European district in Brussels which have cost several innocent lives ...