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The new report of Human Rights Watch reveals that Pakistan has to take necessary steps to stop the rampant police harassment, abuse, and violence against Afghans living in Pakistan. According to the report, incidents of violence, intimidation and abuse against Afghans have increased in Pakistan after the massacre of Army Public School in Peshawar by the so-called Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. Phelim ...

While addressing delegates of a youth Jirga for justice and reforms, Ashraf Ghani promised on Monday to curb unemployment in the country and create more opportunities for youth in government administration. The delegated had come from various provinces of Afghanistan. Ashraf Ghani said that bringing reform is the duty of government while program will soon be started to put a ...

LONDON: Amidst the speculations over the reasons for break-up between Reham Khan and the former cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan, Reham Khan said that no one but they themselves are responsible for the divorce, as their marriage could never become a personal matter, because everybody had a say in it. in a sense, Reham Khan said, with her marriage the whole ...

AFGHANISTAN: A coordinated attack on the Arghandab district headquarters in southern Kandahar province ended after nearly one hour of fighting, in which five suicide bombers and an army soldier were killed and six more were injured, provincial officials said. The attack was launched at 7:00am when one suicide bomber blew his explosive packed vehicle near to the first security gate ...

KABUL: Twenty-four girls’ schools that previously were closed by the Taliban insurgents, reopened in central Logar province, provincial education officials said on Wednesday. They said that tribal elders, religious scholars and the government had put their last-ditch efforts to reopen these schools. Education Department’s spokesman, Mohammad Shapoor Arab, told Pajhwok Afghan News that insurgents had shut down the door of ...

KABUL: The Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai and India’s Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Tuesday explored ways to expand bilateral cooperation. Jaishankar and Karzai led the Indian and Afghan delegations in the foreign office consultations in New Delhi. The two sides commended friendly relations between the two countries and discussed ways to expand bilateral security cooperation. They also discussed ...

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In a country where exceedingly injurious actions against the constitution and the body politic of the state are not only carried out regularly  but also find easily digestible justifications, it shouldn’t be considered the least out of place to hear dissident voices rise when political authority either overarches into forbidden territory or proposes multiplicity of approaches to issues. That’s how ...

PILDAT has requested the Punjab’s Director General of Public Relations an access to the annual expenditure of the Government of Punjab on promotional advertisement. The request has been acknowledged by DGPR. PILDAT has also assessed in its 4th monitor on Right to Information (RTI) the recent directives from the Prime Minister house and the Cabinet Division which ask all information ...

Germans are known to be outspoken, some would even say: rude. But in this post-protestant country, people would rather consider themselves as honest. And that’s what you expect from a friend, they believe. The large business delegation that German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought to India on the occasion of the third intergovernmental talks between the two countries on Monday and ...