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KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) on Saturday hoped the presence of the United States and China in the Afghan peace talks would yield result and make Pakistan to meet its pledges. The body’s acting chairman, Abdul Hakim Mujahid, said the second phase of peace talks would be different from the first round held in July last year, adding that ...

AFGHANISTAN: In a statement to the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Shireen M. Mazari, spokesperson for the chairman of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan, said on Saturday that misunderstandings had arisen out of a remark about the treatment of an Afghan Taliban leader at the Shaukat Khanum cancer hospital in Lahore. This came after media reports emerged Saturday that Khan reportedly confirmed ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday appealed to the public to refrain from shooting in the air in the event of the Afghan national football team winning its match against India on Sunday. Afghanistan is scheduled to take on India in the finals of the South Asian Football Federation ( SAFF) championship cup in India on Friday evening. ...

The Afghanistan Football coach Petar Segrt has said the final match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship final between Afghanistan and India ‘will be a new day for both teams’, insisting that we have to win it for the people of Afghanistan. Segrt further added that Afghanistan will not take the Indian team lightly, admitting that “The Indian Team ...

ISLAMABAD: Former Chief Minister of Balochistan Abdul Malik Baloch revealed in an interview with Geo News that he met Brahumdagh Bugti several times in Geneva. Speaking to Geo News’ program Jirga’s host Saleem Safi, Dr. Malik Baloch said that the Army and the prime minister were both on board regarding his meeting with Brahumdagh Bugti in Geneva. He added that ...

PATHANKOT: Hours before terrorists struck at the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot early on Saturday, at least one of them spoke to their families back in Pakistan. Sources told Zee Media that Indian intelligence agencies intercepted four international calls to Pakistan from in and around Pathankot after 12:35 am on Friday midnight. The terrorist spoke to his mother on phone ...

Saudi Arabia-led coalition could resume bombing raids in Yemen that are targeting Houthi rebels after it decided to end a ceasefire that had begun on December 15. The break in fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi anti-government forces had been regularly broken by both sides over the last couple of weeks. “The leadership of the coalition supporting legitimacy ...

‘Big Brother’ eats up everything and doesn’t give anything to others PESHAWAR: Without naming anyone, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak on Saturday said that “big brother eats up everything and does not give anything to others.” “Elder brother will have to mend his ways and change his philosophy, centre eats up everything and provinces are ignored,” the Chief Minister ...

MOSCOW: A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years. The document, “About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation”, was signed by President Vladimir Putin on New Year’s Eve. It replaces a 2009 version, ...

AFGHANISTAN: Rival factions of the Afghan Taliban agreed to stop deadly infighting, officials said, but tensions remained over the status of new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who has not been seen since reportedly being shot last month. Leadership of the Taliban has been in dispute since the confirmation last July of the death of the hard-line Islamist insurgency’s founder, Mullah ...