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France held a memorial service Friday to mark two weeks since the deadly terrorist attacks in the capital, Paris. The names of the 130 victims of the attack were read at the ceremony held in the courtyard of Paris’ central Invalides complex. Among those in attendance were French President Francois Hollande, families of victims, and hundreds of those injured in ...

PESHAWAR:By Wakeel Khan: The head of the leading Baloch separatist leader Dr Allah Nazar has appeared alive in a new video released by Baloch Liberation Front on Thursday. Earlier in August Allah Nazar was declared dead in an operation in Awaran district by Pakistani government and had considered his death to be a major victory for the state to quell ...

BANNU: By Gohar Wazir and Karim Ullah Khan The Federal Minister Akram Khan Durrani narrowly escaped an attempt made on his life when in the evening an improvised explosive device hit his convoy in Bakka Khel, Bannu.  According to the initial reports it was a remote-controlled bomb blast, in which two persons have died. Today when Akram Durrani was returning ...

ISLAMABAD: Head of Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan has met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his house yesterday to show his concerns to Nawaz Sharif over the government ignoring the construction of Western rout of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which will pass through two under-developed smaller western provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to the sources Asfandyar Wali ...

ISLAMABAD: On special invitation of the Afghan government, Central president of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan will visit Afghanistan on Thursday. Addressing a press conference after a meeting with Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, the ANP leader said that he discussed the Pak-Afghan relations, China-Pakistan economic corridor and FATA issues with the prime minister. He said that he ...

PESHAWAR: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has invited certain Pakistani politicians to Afghanistan for discussion on the prevailing situation in the region and the state of Pak-Afghan relations. Qaumi Watan Party (QWP)’s information secretary Tariq Khan told The News that their party head Aftab Ahmad Sherpao and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Sikandar Hayat Sherpao would leave for Kabul today on a three-day ...

Efforts related to talks between the Afghan government and Taliban with the help of Pakistan have been observed recently again after news of the death of Mulla Umar in July had delayed its second round. In the last few months Pakistan has been trying to bring the Afghan government to talks but Kabul instead wants that Pakistan should rather take ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated his war of words with Turkey on Wednesday when he accused the Turkish leadership of having encouraged the “Islamization” of the country for years and stating that there was a “deeper problem” than just the Turkish military’s downing of a Russian warplane. The diplomatic fallout of Tuesday’s incident near the Syrian border is becoming ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called a news conference all lingering in Turkey Russians to leave the country immediately. Currently, estimates 10,000 Russian citizens in Turkey on. They were now invited by Sergei Lavrov to leave the country immediately. Reason is today’s shooting down of a Russian fighter jets at the Turkish-Syrian border. Aljazeera reported on this detail of the ...

Saudi Arabia, a country run for centuries by a ruthless criminal family masquerading as “royalty,” where people are executed for witchcraft and women are not allowed to drive, is now a leading representative of the five-member UN Human Rights Council panel. -Agencies THE PASHTUN TIMES