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INDIA: At least seven people are dead after gunmen launched an attack on an Indian air force base near to the border with Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. A group of gunmen raided the Pathankot air force base in the northwestern state of Punjab. An Indian government official told CNN that two members of the Indian Security Forces, one civilian, ...

AFGHANISTAN: Nearly 59 individuals who were held captive by Taliban militants in Greshk and Nahr Siraj districts in Helmand were freed in a special military operation by Army Commando troops on Friday night. The Defense Ministry spokesman, Dawlat Waziri, said the special operation was launched on Friday and the hostages were freed in a special operation by Army Commando troops ...

BRISBANE: Maria Sharapova will open her Australian campaign with a match against Ekaterina Makarova following Friday’s draw for the Brisbane International. Defending champion and third seed Sharapova will play world number 23 Makarova in a rematch from last year’s Australian Open semi-final. “This was a grand slam semi-final last year in Australia,” five-time grand slam champion Sharapova told reporters. “For ...

‘Surkh Salam’ is about communist politics and class activism in Pakistan between 1947 and 1972 KARACHI: The major failure of the communist movement in Pakistan was that Marxism was taken as an engineering manual by communist parties. Marxism is a science. It should be applied creatively to society, which was not done. This was the point raised by Director of ...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on Saturday for terrorism, mostly said to be Al Qaeda members but also a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, Interior Ministry said in a statement broadcast on state television. The conservative Islamic kingdom, which usually executes people by public beheading, detained thousands of militants after a series of Al Qaeda attacks from 2003-06 ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Friday demanded that the government publish the inquiry report of the attack on Army Public School in Peshawar. Speaking during the Senate session, PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar stressed that the issue of the publication of APS attack inquiry report should be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Defence for it to make ...

The artwork, named ‘The Leader’s Tree, has many carefully hidden faces among the branches, all of famous figures. Can you name them all? Got some suggestions yourself? Share in the comments section below. THE PASHTUN TIMES  

Underfire Real Madrid coach Rafa Benitez will look to an in form Cristiano Ronaldo to drive the team forward against Valencia on Sunday as they aim to put behind them a disappointing 2015. It was a year that promised so much after they put together a run of 22 wins to finish 2014 but they ended up being overshadowed by ...

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who is pushing for executive powers, cites Hitler’s Germany as an example of an effective presidential system, in comments broadcast by Turkish media on Friday. Erdogan wants to change the Turkish constitution to turn the ceremonial role of president into that of a chief executive, a Turkish version of the system in the United States, ...

KABUL: At least three people were killed and 15 were wounded in a suicide attack on a guesthouse used by foreigners in Thaimani area of Kabul on Friday evening, an official said. The guesthouse – Le Jardin is located in the vicinity of 9th street of Taimani area in 4th police district of the city which is mostly visited by the foreigners. ...