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NEW YORK: The Pakistani national al-Qaida operative Abid Naseer was found guilty in a court in Brooklyn on the charges of his involvement in terror-related activities including his material support to a terrorist cell, his involvement in planning of bombing a shopping mall in London and association with men who had conspired to bomb the New York City subway. Naseer, 29, ...

INDIA: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has said that he and his wife Kiran Rao have resolved to leave India because of growing religious intolerance in the country. Aamir Khan says that he feels the sense of fear and insecurity more than ever. “There is growing sense of despondency”, he added. He says that his wife tells him for the first ...

Downing of Russian plane is a ‘stab in the back’ from Turkey, says Putin. The war plane that Turkey shoots down is the Su-24 according to the Russian president Vladimir Putin, which was flying over Syrian territory and hit by Turkish F-16s. The Turkish media, however, reports that the Russian War plane was hit in the territory of Turkey, and ...

Germany is to maintain its military presence in northern Afghanistan in 2016 in cooperation with its NATO partners, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday. “We have agreed – and this is very good news – that we are going to go ahead with our contribution in the mission of strengthening the security architecture in Afghanistan. That ...

LONDON: More than half of Britons now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll carried out after the Paris attacks for the Independent newspaper. The ORB survey of 2,000 people showed 52 per cent of British voters wanted to leave while 48 per cent wanted to stay. In similar polls in June, July and September, a ...

France is pulling out all the stops as François Hollande scrambles to fulfil his ambitious pledge to build a global military coalition to defeat Islamic State following the Paris attacks. The French president has won public approval and international backing for his handling of the crisis so far. His poll ratings are up by eight points to 33%. Foreign leaders ...

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin today lifted a ban on Russian firms from working on Iranian enrichment sites as he travelled to Tehran for his first visit since 2007. A decree Putin signed today enables Russian firms to work with Iranian companies on the Fordo enrichment site and help Tehran in redesigning its Arak nuclear reactor. Russian companies can now also ...

BANGLADESH: Two opposition leaders in Bangladesh have been executed on Sunday in connection with war crimes of 1971. The special court of Bangladesh for the trials of 1971 war-crimes, called International Crime Tribunal, had sentenced Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid to death in 2013, which was upheld by the Supreme ...

BANNU: By Jamshid Khan All Pakistan bilingual declamation contest was held at Abbottabad Public school and college on 20th November. Eleven elite educational institutions from all over Pakistan participated. Akram Khan Durrani College Bannu got 2nd position in this contest. Principal Dr. Raza Khan told The Pashtun Times that from AKDC, Usama Ghaffar, student of class 9th presented English speech ...

PAKISTAN: National Unity Council, (Mili Yakjehti Council) an umbrella organization of Pakistan Islamist parties and organizations, have warned that they would stop Pakistan from becoming a liberal country. Hafiz Saeed, head of the banned organization of Jamat-ud-Dawa, has said that he has been made surprised by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement on the liberalization of the country. The Council has ...