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Editorial: While commentators and journalists across Europe try to prove hey wrong by the farthest possible count, Angela Merkel’s stance on Syrian refugees shines as a new beacon of hope for mankind’s shared future. The bold stance pointed to the world a number of universal realities which would’ve gone down the drain of history without notice.  Her policies showed that ...

The dissident Taliban leader Mullah Rasool has said he will not participate in peace talks with the government which is led by the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. In an interview with the UK-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Mullah Rasool has said he is not opposed to reconciliation in principle, insisting that he opposes with Mansoor’s hegemony over ...

A Pakistani television actress has promised to strip naked if her country’s national team defeats India in ICC World Twenty20. The actress, Qandeel Baloch, made the commitment in an online video message posted on her Facebook page, it has been reported. “If Pakistan beats India in the match scheduled on March 18, I’ll strip dance for the country and will ...

ISLAMABAD: Condemning a bomb blast in a bus carrying provincial government employees in Peshawar on Wednesday, Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan has alleged that the PTI-led government has handed over the province to terrorists. “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has become a safe haven for terrorists under the present government,” he said in a statement. The ANP president said had a ...

Taliban aren’t ready to engage directly with Afghan govt, Nicholas Haysom informs UNSC KABUL: Briefing the UN Security Council, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, said that during his meeting with the Taliban Political Commission last week he urged the militant group to engage in direct talks with the Afghan government. The head of the United Nations Assistance ...

KARACHI: Two women leaders of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) said on Wednesday that more than 70 members of the party had been missing for several months and emphasised that the situation in Balochistan could only be normalised if aspirations of Baloch people were kept supreme. Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, Ailaaf Baloch and Afshan Baloch ...

BESANGON: A woman aged 91 has become one of the oldest women in France to gain a PhD after she completed a thesis that she had begun three decades earlier. Colette Bourlier was awarded the mark of “high distinction” for her work, which she successfully defended on Tuesday before a jury of the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, eastern France. ...

Although, no survey has been carried out about the exact number of female drug addicts in Afghanistan, but the primary studies and assessments of the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MoCN) show the number of drug addicts has been on the rise gradually, since 2009. Spokesman for MoCN, Mohammad Hanif Danishyar, told Afghanistan Times that the number of drug addicts in ...

LAGOS: Octogenarian Yewande Oyediran sits back in a comfy armchair in her living room in the “Campos” quarter of Lagos, with its fading Brazilian heritage. She talks about her great-grandfather Joao Esan da Rocha, from Osun state in southwest Nigeria, who was captured by slave traders in the 1850s, taken to South America and later freed. ‘Frejon’ — a coconut ...

The American actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie has spoken against the exclusion of Afghans seeking refuge abroad, particularly in European countries amid persistent issues the Afghan asylum seekers are facing. Angelina who is also a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees expressed concerns regarding the exclusion of the Afghan refugees during a visit to Lebanon on ...