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KABUL – The new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan apologised on Tuesday for the American bombing of a hospital last year that killed 42 people and wounded 37 more. General John W. Nicholson met family members of victims and the staff of the now-closed Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, which was captured by Taliban insurgents for ...

State uses to be like mother who cares about her children above all prejudices. State cares about its children without cost benefit analysis. We call this approach as humanistic approach on behalf of the state. Those states are called welfare states which cater all the necessities to its people.  Based on this relationship state and its inhabitants have certain rights ...

KABUL: Criticizing the American authorities for not responding to the cross-Durand Line aggression, the former president Hamid Karzai said that the United States must implement the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) in letter and spirit. In his message on Nawroz, the ex-president said that violation of Afghan soil should be responded by the US government as it was duty of Washington to ...

Thirty-four people were killed in attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, according to public broadcaster VRT, triggering security alerts across Europe and bringing some cross-border traffic to a halt. A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic and shots shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels ...

PESHAWAR: A dissident Taliban leader, who refused pledging allegiance to the movement’s new head, has been detained by Pakistani security personnel. Mullah Muhammad Rasool was chosen as head of the breakaway faction in early November by the Taliban opposed to Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s appointment as the group’s supremo. Rasool was arrested after he had fled recent infighting in southern Zabul ...

Transgender community to protested against police transphobia following claims S.H.O. Ghazi attacked a transgender function, looted Rs. 1500,000 and sexually harassed two transgender A newly formed  provincial alliance of transgender called TransAction hold a peaceful protest against police trans-phobia, outside Peshawar Press Club and organized a media briefing. President of the TransAction Alliance  Farzana told media that S.H.O. Ghazi named ...

“I think that our men’s tennis world, ATP world, should fight for more, because the stats are showing that we have much more spectators on the men’s tennis matches.” — AFP INDIAN WELLS: World number one Novak Djokovic has indicated men’s tennis should get more prize money than women because it has more spectators as a new controversy over equality ...

The social media have been rife recently with reports and pictures regarding the harmful effects of mobile phones, however a terrifying footage has gone viral recently which purportedly shows the mobile phone setting a man on fire, reportedly in Pakistan. The footage which has gone viral mainly in Facebook social media website shows the shocking moment a man becomes engulfed ...

Click from Islamabad  By Aurangzeb Zalmay

Click from Islamabad Photo by Aurangzeb Zalmay