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ISLAMABAD: The Pashtun Times got the open letter sent to the Interior Minister today by a civil society activist, Ms. Marvi Sirmed. Today, the interior minister of Pakistan Ch. Nisar, announced in the parliament that there is no such charge against Mullah Abdul Aziz of the Red-Mosque if he would be arrested. The letter by Ms. Sirmed is a reminder to ...

ISLAMABAD: Worshipers at the infamous Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad still gather in their hundreds for Friday prayers, but the fiery sermons calling for Sharia law led by hardline cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz are now a thing of the past. The preacher, who once led a week-long armed conflict against Pakistan’s army and has repeatedly called for the ...

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain has expressed his concern over the fact that banned outfits are still freely operating in Punjab though the National Action Plan (NAP) was announced after the Army Public School tragedy in Peshawar last year. Speaking at a function held in the memory of slain APS students in a school of ...

PESHAWAR: Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan, popularly known as Dr Khan Sahib, was assassinated in 1958 when he was serving the West Pakistan’s government as its first chief minister. However, he has not been declared a “state martyr”. “The historians in Pakistan must research this issue,” University of Peshawar Vice Chancellor Dr Rasul Jan said. He was speaking at an event of ...

US: Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump responded to Vladimir Putin’s comment, in which the Russian president called Trump “the absolute front-runner,” stating that it was a “great honor” to receive praise from a “highly respected” leader like Putin. “It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and ...

WASHINGTON:  Pakistan is not focusing on taking action against terror groups operating on its soil, that pose a threat to both India and Afghanistan, a top US official has said. “They (Pakistan) have focused more on the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan than they have on external terrorist actors that’s threatened their neighbours, whether Afghanistan or India,” Richard G Olson, Special US Representative ...

KABUL – Supporters of Daesh in Afghanistan are attempting to establish a regional base in the eastern city of Jalalabad, the commander of U.S and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, said Tuesday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Campbell said that “foreign fighters” from Syria and Iraq had joined Afghans who had declared loyalty to the group ...

ISLAMABAD: Members of National Youth Organization(NYO), Pakhtun Student Federation and ANP showing solidarity with the martyrs of the Army Public School in front of Islamabad Press-Club. THE PASHTUN TIMES

AFGHANISTAN: The former India all-rounder cricket Manoj Prabhakar has been appointed as the bowling coach for the Afghanistan national cricket team, it has been reported. Prabhakar will assist the Afghanistan team as a bowling coach until ICC World Cup Twenty20 2016 to be held in India. “I am glad I can guide the Afghan team. They have immense talent and I ...

The new song released by the ISPR in lieu of Peshawar Army Public School commemoration day, is neither poignant nor thought provoking and sounds like the expression of dislocated sensibility. The lyrics contain offensive connotations and seem to be focused against a particular community/ ethnic group within Pakistan, identified as the enemy. Or is it that the great fighters of ...