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Musa Khan Nangialay is a correspondent with THE PASHTUN TIMES. He has masters degrees in Political Science and International Relations from University of Peshawar. He can be reached at musanangialey@gmail.com THE PASHTUN TIMES

PARACHINAR: At least 25 people were killed and 62 injured on Sunday when a device containing about 35 kilograms of explosives ripped through a makeshift market in Parachinar town of Kurram tribal region, residents and hospital sources said. Officials said that the device kept in a sack exploded when a large number of people were buying second-hand clothes. A huge pall ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani said that peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban will start within few weeks. Speaking at a press conference here on Friday, President Ghani said that Pakistan has vowed to facilitate the peace parleys. Showing meticulous optimism about results of the upcoming peace parleys, President Ghani said that the pace talks will be held within ...

An Afghan refugee teacher in Pakistan along with two Pakistani female teachers have been shortlisted for the Global Teacher Prize 2016. The Global Teacher Prize is a one million dollar award that is given to an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession. The Varkey Foundation launched the Global Teacher Prize in 2014 to raise the ...

Saudi Arabia holds its first ever election open to female voters and candidates on Saturday, in a tentative step towards easing restrictions that are among the world’s tightest on women. The absolute Islamic monarchy, where women are banned from driving and must cover themselves from head-to-toe in public, is the last country where only men had been allowed to vote. ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani strongly rejected rumors on Friday that the National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief Rahmatullah Nabil was sacked at Pakistan’s request. Instead, Ghani said his resignation was routine. Following speculation over Nabil’s resignation, Ghani said those who believe that either the president of Afghanistan or the national security council would dismiss government officials at the request of ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has rejected the remarks by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani for calling the residents of Waziristan tribal regions ‘Pakistanis’. The office of the Former President issued a statement following President Ghani’s remarks he delivered during the Heart of Asia summit in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. The statement further added that the Former ...

[Following is the keynote address by Professor Dr. Sayed Wiqar Ali Shah. The address was delivered by the professor last month in Khairpur University, Sindh, on 25th November, which ultimately led to his removal from the post of the director of the National Institute of Historical and Culture Research (NIHCR), Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Professor Dr. Sayed Wiqar Ali Shah is ...

BANNU: By Wasim Baghi: Afghan security forces have killed a key commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Said Anwar alias Aryana, along with nine other militants in a raid carried out near Pak-Afghan border in Afghanistan’s province Paktia. Sources confirmed that Aryana has been killed in a clash with security forces of Afghanistan. Aryana remained a closed friend of Ex-TTP head Hakim ...

Human rights are relatively new, conceived in the European ‘Enlightenment’ of great thinkers and humanitarians, developing through the centuries and becoming ratified through the adoption of the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris 1948. Human Rights are commonly understood to be inalienable, fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled, simply because ...