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The present security and political scenario in Pakhtun lands can best be described through three interesting quotes from Shakespeare’s play, ‘King Lear’:  Come not between the dragon and his wrath Vengeance! plague! death! confusion! No rescue? What, a prisoner? The dastardly horrible terrorist attack on Bacha Khan University Charsadda (the ancient Pushklavati), a suburban district of Peshawar valley in Khyber ...

My friend was once asked by a Baloch friend of his, “We know why we are killed, but why Pushtoons are being killed?” Can the state provide answer to this question? Franz Kafka was a brilliant author. His novel, The Trial, traces the life of a person who has been caught in a huge, opaque, tightly sealed bureaucratic machinery of ...

Dr. Khurshid Alam is a columnist with THE PASHTUN TIMES. He belongs to Lelowni, Shangla (KhyberPakhtunkhwa). He got his basic education in Swat and did his MBBS from Dow Medical College Karachi. It was in Karachi when he saw the attitude of other nations that he started Pashtun nationalist politics. He was impressed by Ajmal Khattak and in 1965 he ...

MELBOURNE: Angelique Kerber became the first German to win a grand slam title since her childhood idol Steffi Graf in 1999 when she upset world number one Serena Williams 6-4 3-6 6-4 to clinch the Australian Open on Saturday. The 34-year-old American had been seeking her seventh Melbourne Park title and 22nd overall, which would have moved her into a ...

اوس باید د پښتنو ټول سیاسي مشران د ذاتي ګټو پر ځای د قامي ګټو لپاره وجنګیږي او ټول قام یو موټی کړي ځکه چې د جنت لار په پښتونخوا نه تېرېږي. اسدالله مایار د چارسدې پر باچا خان پوهنتون برید که یو خوا د پښتون قام د روښانه سباوون امیدونه شهیدان کړل نو بلخوا یې پښتانه زلمي پر دې ...

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Thousands of Afghan refugees have been recruited by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to fight alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, it has been reported. According to reports, some of the refugees have been deployed to Syria after they were recruited through coercion. Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said “Iran has not ...

Some 18 months after the military launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb to flush out militants from the North Waziristan region, terror strikes continue to afflict the country. DW examines the reasons behind this. In June 2014, Pakistan’s largest international airport in the southern city of Karachi became the target of a terrorist attack carried out by various outlawed outfits. That assault is ...

AFGHANISTAN: Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) in its new report to the United States Congress has written that Afghanistan proved even more dangerous than it was a year ago. The report further states that a year after the Coalition handed responsibility for Afghan security to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), American and British forces were ...

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