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AFGHANISTAN: Top U.S. military commanders, who only a few months ago were planning to pull the last American troops out of Afghanistan by year’s end, are now quietly talking about an American commitment that could keep thousands of troops in the country for decades, The Washington Post reports. The news agency citing senior military officials say that the shift in ...

ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Shah on Tuesday expressed concern over what he called ‘non-implementation’ of the National Action Plan. Talking to reporters in his chamber at the parliament house, he called for a judicial probe into terrorist attacks in Peshawar’s Army Public School and Bacha Khan University in Charsadda. He said people wanted ...

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PESHAWAR: A Pakhtun nationalist party has urged Islamabad to pave the ground for a joint offensive with Kabul against terrorists. Awami National Party (ANP) general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain called terrorists the common enemy of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Speaking to reporters in the Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, he stressed the need for a joint operation to ...

AFGHANISTAN: The social media has been rife with reports and pictures of a kid wearing a plastic with the football star Lionel Messi’s name written on it. The photographs of the kid hailing from southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan went viral on social media today with earlier speculations suggesting that the kid is an Iraqi Kurd. He has been identified ...

Famous Norwegian anthropologist, Fredrik Barth, the author of the book ‘Political Leadership among Swat Pathans’, passed away on last Sunday. He was 87.  May he rest in peace!  

AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan government on Monday said peace talks will only take place with the Taliban groups renouncing violence as efforts are underway to revive the stalled peace process amid rampant Taliban-led insurgency. Deputy presidential spokesman Syed Zafar Hashemi told reporters that trilateral and quadrilateral meetings between Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and United States will continue as part of efforts for ...

The creation of Pakistan was shrouded in a mysteries to give political life to few. Otherwise it was clear to everyone that state was proclaimed for a person and an army.  More ink has been sprinkled on this subject than needed. The real issue was ignored, the repercussions of its creation on global politics and peace? Very few have elaborated ...

Instead of blaming Afghanistan for the varsity attack, Pakistan would do better to correct its deadly course. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan may be down but it certainly is not out. Various factions of the terrorist group have launched and claimed several deadly attacks in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa province in the past months. And January was no exception. On two consecutive days, the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), an American clergyman and Nobel Prize Winner, once said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. The situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) truly mirrors these remarks. Primarily due to the Frontier Crime Regulations (FCR), the tribal belt today is a place where humanity is daily ridiculed. It is undergoing the worst ...