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AFGHANISTAN: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani conferred the High State medal on General John Campbell the outgoing commander of the U.S. Forces and NATO-led Resolute Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan. The Office of the President in a statement said the First Grade High State medal of Storai was conferred on Gen. Campbell during a ceremony in ARG Presidential Palace. The statement ...

PESHAWAR: Child marriages that snatch innocence of millions of girls worldwide, is one of the biggest obstacles to development. There is increasing recognition that child marriage is a serious problem that violates human rights and hinders key development outcomes. The latest international estimates indicate that, worldwide, more than 60 million women aged 20-24 were married before they turned 18. Blue ...

KANDAHAR CITY: Dried a and fresh fruits worth $68 million have been exported from southern Kandahar province during the current solar year, which ends on March 22, officials said on Friday, Eng. Abdul Baqi Beena, the Afghanistan Chambers of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) deputy head for Kandahar, said exports over the past 10 months included 2,000 tonnes of dried fruits, ...

AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan woman has killed a Taliban commander over home privacy breach in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, security officials said Friday. Provincial police spokesman, Jawed Basharat, said the incident took place in Khwajah Bahauddin district of Baghlan province late on Thursday night. Meanwhile, provincial police chief, Gen. Ewaz Mohammad Nazeri, said the Taliban commander was killed after he ...

VIENNA – The European Union and United Nations on Tuesday criticised new police restrictions imposed on those travelling along the main migrant route through the Balkans, where hundreds of Afghans have been blocked from crossing into FYROM. Police chiefs from EU nations Austria, Croatia and Slovenia plus non-members Serbia and FYROM agreed last week to only allow in people “arriving ...

BRUSSELS: The European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia on Thursday, saying Britain, France and other EU governments should no longer sell weapons to a country accused of targeting civilians in Yemen. EU lawmakers, who voted overwhelmingly in favour of an embargo, said Britain had licensed more than $3bn of arms sales ...

In American politics, the republicans may be classified as orthodox, fundamentalists or conservative. Probably it has some characteristics of each. But as for as it comes to American national interest there is hardly any difference between any one of them, irrespective who is in the oval office. The protection of its national or international interests is at the top. It ...

AFGHANISTAN: The 5-year-old kid from Afghanistan, Murtaza Ahmadi, has received signed shirts from football star Lionel Messi, almost a month after charming the internet with a shirt prepared from plastic. According to UNICEF in Afghanistan, the football star helped make the dream of the kid come true. The picture of Murtaza went viral last month shortly after it was uploaded ...

Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies are waging a nasty war on U.S.-based scholars whose writings and public statements undermine cherished narratives promulgated by the army that has dominated Pakistan’s governance for most of the state’s existence. These agencies aim to intimidate, discredit, and silence us. Their tools are crude and include: outright threats; slanderous articles in Pakistani papers and other ...

ناانصافی، عدم رواداری، شکوک و شبہات، دوغلا پن اور بے اعتمادی دو سگے بھائیوں کے درمیان بھی حد سے بڑھ جائے تو بھائی بندی ٹوٹ جاتی ہے۔ بھائی چارہ چند بھائیوں کے درمیان ہو، قوموں کے مابین ہو اور یا ملکوں کے بیچ، ہمیشہ باہمی اعتماد، انصاف اور حقوق کی یکساں پاسداری پہ قائم رہتا ہے۔ پاکستان کے مثالی گھرانوں ...