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Greetings to my fellow readers of The Pashtun Times..! My name is Roger Dubar. I live in Glasgow, Scotland. I’ve been using the internet for over 25 years, and have used it to talk to and made friends with people from all over the world. In February, I traveled to Barcelona in Spain for Europe’s biggest telecom conference, Mobile World ...

Negotiations are underway between the Afghan, Iranian and Indian officials for the construction of railway from the strategic Chabahar port to the western Herat province of Afghanistan. According to the officials in the Ministry of Public Works of Afghanistan, the government of India is mulling the support the construction of the railway from Chabahar to Herat. The officials further added ...

The militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are forcing their sex slaves to take birth control so they can repeatedly rape them, it has been reported. The distressing move by ISIS fighters followed by a ruling by the terror group which prevents them to rape their slaves after they become pregnant. The ruling by ...

KABUL: The New Beginning Network launched its second discussion as part of the “Academic Discourse Series 2016” with scholars, intellectuals and members of civil society in Kabul and urged the government to include positive cultural values in its national development strategies for peace, national unity and sustainable economic development. Dr Hassan Makaremi, a psychoanalyst and strategy development expert from Iran ...

KABUL – First Lady Rula Ghani on Sunday expressed her concern over the increasing violence against women and said street harassment of women was unacceptable and people should change their minds. While talking about the International Women’s Day at the Ministry of Interior, Rula Ghani said women in uniform particularly in the police force, had played a special role in ...

Terrorism is the menace of 21st century which has played havoc like an epidemic all over the world. Many countries are using it as a tool, proxies, to pursue their interest inside their country or on the other side of the border. Pakistan is one of the most affected countries along with the Arab countries, where spring changed into unwarranted ...

The so-called independent journalism in Pakistan has created a havoc in the country, particularly the electronic anchors. The main reason is illiteracy. The print media has a reach only to the educated section of the society, the masses tune their ears to the TV. Unfortunately, very few anchors deserve to be called as the journalists. The rest is paid to ...

     ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari presents a souvenir to BJP leader Vijay Jolly.—PPI ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called for increasing people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan to improve ties. The call was made by the PPP leader during a meeting with a three-member delegation of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which met him ...

SEOUL: A North Korean submarine is missing, reports said on Saturday, as the reclusive state issued a fresh threat of retaliation against US and South Korean forces involved in joint military drills. The unknown class of vessel had been reportedly operating off the North Korean coast earlier in the week when it disappeared. A South Korean defence ministry in Seoul ...

The Hezb-e-Islami party led by the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has announced the group is prepared to sit-in for peace talks with the Afghan government. The group has released a statement saying they are prepared to participate in the peace talks in a bid to show to the nation that Hezb-e-Islami wants peace. The party also condemned the inclusion of ...