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The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is in the middle of negotiations with the other member states of the European Union (EU) to try and negotiate terms favourable to the UK, on Welfare, Immigration and Sovereignty issues, that will persuade UK voters to remain in the EU in the promised referendum.  One of Cameron promises when re-elected in 2015 was ...

Toor Pekai grew up without having been to school but is now getting an education thanks to her inspirational daughter THE MIRROR: As a child, Toor Pekai would drip ink on her clothes, pretending she was at school, because like most girls in her Pakistani village, she was never taught to write or read. Fast-forward three decades, and a 15-year-old girl also desperate ...

 بنوں(وسیم باغی سے)بازار احمد خان قبائل کا بجلی کی لوڈشیڈنگ کے خلاف جرگہ ۔واپڈا سپرنٹنڈنٹ پر علاقہ میں داخلے پر پابندی عائد کر دی۔علاقہ عوام اور مشران کو پیسکو حکام کی جانب سے اطمینان بخش جواب نہ ملنے پر 132 kvگریڈ اسٹیشن پر دھاوا بولنے اور پورے بنوں کی بجلی سپلائی منقطع کرنے کی دھمکی ۔منگل کے روز بازار احمد ...

PESHAWAR: Blue Veins with the support of Canada Fund for Local initiatives (CFLI) organized a Multi-stakeholder’s consultation in Peshawar to review the latest available provincial drafts of Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2016 and develop a consensus based best amended pro-girls and women marriage restraint act draft to be presented in the KP Assembly. The consultation aimed to reduce ideological conflict ...

A report published by the Voice of America (VOA) reveals that the loyalists of the Islamic State (IS) who have named Afghanistan and Pakistan region as the province of Khorasan are involved in timber smuggling. Local officials and tribal elders in the eastern region of the country have told VOA that the terrorist group has imported tree-cutting machines to their ...

KABUL – Announcing a long-term commitment to Afghanistan will be a better option for the United States in the given circumstances, America’s outgoing military says. Gen John Campbell, commander of the Resolute Support mission, believes such a step would keep the Taliban, who are hedging their bets on the US troop withdrawal, under pressure. “It sends a message to Pakistan, ...

Gohar Wazir is a correspondent with THE PASHTUN TIMS THE PASHTUN TIMES

IRELAND (DUBLIN): On Saturday 6th February 2016 a group of Pukhtun people gathered to protest in front of the Pakistan embassy in Dublin, Ireland. The event was organized by Angelina Merisi (an Irish citizen and PhD scholar at University College Cork), and Zaib Khan Esapzai who hails from the Swat region of Pakhtunkhwa and is the chief coordinator of Afghan ...

بنوں(وسیم باغی سے )احمد زئی اتمانزئی قبائلی جرگہ کی جانب سے مالکان ،خان بہادراور مشران پر کمشنر،ڈپٹی کمشنر اور پولیٹیکل انتظامیہ کے ساتھ ملاقات پر پابندی عائد۔ خلاف ورزی کر نے پر 5لاکھ جرمانہ کیا جائیگا۔حکومت کا ایف آرز میں سکولوں کی بندش کا فیصلہ صرف چند سو سکول کا نہیں بلکہ اس کے ساتھ 60ہزار قبائل کا مستقبل وابسطہ ...

د اېف ار بنو احمدزي او اتمانزي وزیر قبیلو مشرانو حکومت ته د علاقايي ذمه واري نه د لاس پورته کولو دهړکه ورکړېده او  د تر هغې پورې يې کچهروته د تلو نه بائیکاټ کړي ، څو پورې چې جکومت د کم تعداد او غېر فعالیت په نوم د سکولو او هسپتالونو د بندولو پرکړه واپس نه وي اخیستې.  او ...