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Venezuela’s opposition won control of the National Assembly by a landslide on Sunday, delivering a major setback to the ruling party and altering the balance of power after 17 years of socialist rule. The opposition won at least 99 seats in the 167-seat legislature, National Electoral Council President Tibisay Lucena announced after midnight. The socialist party won 46 seats and ...

WASHINGTON: In a rare Oval Office address, President Barack Obama vowed Sunday night the U.S. will overcome a new phase of the terror threat that seeks to “poison the minds” of people here and around the world, as he sought to reassure Americans shaken by recent attacks in Paris and California. “I know that after so much war, many Americans ...

ISLAMABAD/RED MOSQUE: Pakistan on Saturday denied reports in international and local media claiming that officials from the United States (US) had a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif regarding the alleged link between Tashfeen Malik – the female shooter in the California rampage – and Lal Masjid and its radical cleric Abdul Aziz, just as the latter denied any link ...

CANADA: Krima Baloch, the Chairperson of Baloch Students Organization, for the first time appeared in a public event without veil in Canada. The event called Rights for Rights was organized by the Amnesty International in the Canadian city of Toronto on Saturday. She discussed the issues of Balochistan and Baloch people with the Canadian Officials of the Amnesty International where ...

The Afghan government is once again attempting to improve relations with Pakistan and, with Pakistan’s help, revive the stalled peace efforts to bring the Taliban on negotiation table and end the bloody conflict in the country. According to reports, President Ashraf Ghani has met Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Paris climate change summit to discuss ...

Local media reported Saturday about treatment of Mullah Mansoor in a Karachi hospital, the port city of Pakistan. Though the reports could not be confirmed independently but had sent a wave of suspicion over motives of Pakistan. The so-called Taliban’s commander-in-chief Mullah Muhammad Akhtar Mansoor has been in the headlines after the death reports of Mullah Omar, because his appointment ...

The family of the husband and wife who massacred 14 people at a work party in California have expressed their shock and said they wished they could have stopped the atrocity. Saira Khan, the sister of suspected gunman Syed Rizwan Farook told CBS News she never could have imagined her “happily married” brother and sister-in-law leaving their six-month-old daughter to ...

Mr. Amjed Ayaz Khan is a senior English teacher at Government Post Graduate College, Bannu. He has a master degree in literature from the University of the Punjab. He has been teaching English language and literature for 20 years in Pakistan and outside Pakistan. He remained AdvancED and CITA (Asia Pacific Region) accreditation advisor to a number of American and ...

By Inayat Atta: Exactly thirty one years ago in December 1984 American photojournalist Steve McCurry took this famous picture of Afghan girl named Sharbat Gula. Aged twelve then she was an orphan and living at Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar. I see fear and restlessness in her eyes. What you see? THE PASHTUN TIMES

WASHINGTON: Police have identified a couple of Pakistani origin as the shooters who killed 14 people and injured 17 in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday. On Thursday, US President Barack Obama told his nation that police were still trying to determine the motive behind the shooting and urged US lawmakers to bring strict gun control laws. ...