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Pashtuns and modernity as a subject offers immediate pitfalls. It is profuse with cultural distinctiveness and idiosyncrasies, and may prove quite difficult at times for any learned foreign observer to grasp. On the other hand, from a Pashtun point of view, the outer world sometimes seems needlessly complex and tangled, irrationally busy, and while abundant in riches, psychologically as horrible ...

STOCKHOLM: Once again, Paris is in horrible situation. Dead bodies of the innocent civilians are lying on the streets. Friends and families make desperate calls, panic spreads. A nation is in trauma for the second time in a year 2015. A year that started with the Charlie Hebdo tragedy ended with a more dramatic attacks claiming more than 150 lives. ...

PARIS: The attacks of November 13, 2015 in Île-de-France are a series of shootings that occurred on the night of Nov. 13 to 14, 2015 in Paris in the tenth and eleventh arrondissements (restaurant “Little Cambodia” bar, “Le Carillon “Republic Square, rue Bichat, Bataclan, Boulevard Beaumarchais, rue de Charonne Faidherbe street) and explosions at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. ...

FRANCE: 140 people have so far been reported to have died and many more injured in a series of gunshots and bomb blasts in the capital of France. Police has entered Bataclan concert hall where the terrorists had held hostages. Moreover, the national stadium in Paris as well as a popular restaurants have also been attacked. The French president Hollande ...

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BANNU: Nasir Iqbal Khan hails from the southern district of Bannu (Amandi) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and is Pakistan’s No. 1 and the world No. 41 Squash champion. He defeated Todd Harrity in the final of the President Gold Cup International Squash Tournament with 3-0. Earlier in the semi-final Nasir Iqbal had scored victory with an upset against the top seed ...

PESHAWAR: Malala Yousafzai has become a star of the silver screen after an American film director and producer has made a documentary film on her life. The teen activist stars in this new Hollywood documentary, He Named Me Malala, produced by the US director Davis Guggenheim. The documentary is currently shown in cinemas all over America. Mala features in the ...

ISLAMABAD: The Leader of Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Mehmood Achakzai has expressed reservations on the press release of ISPR, which stressed on complimentary initiatives on the part of civilian government with a view to secure long term security gains in the military operations against terrorism. Addressing the National Assembly, Mehmood Achakzai said that ISPR press release concerning the yesterday’s Corps’ ...

ISLAMABAD: With a view to improve relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a dialogue entitling “Beyond Boundaries” has been hosted on Monday by the Pakistani Center of Research for Security studies and the Duran Research and Analysis of Afghanistan. Government officials, youth and Civil Society from both countries participated in the dialogue with a view to help both countries improve their ...

The century old British occupation of the Pashtun region greatly affected the secular national culture and society of the Pashtuns. The British Indian rulers created a space for the loyal maliks and Mullahs in order to perpetuate their own rule. After their departure from the Indian sub continent in 1947, the rulers of the Pakistani state did not try to ...