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By Wakeel Khan PESHAWAR: The great Pashto singer Wagma is originally from Swabi, but she got settled in Peshawar long ago for artistic reasons. The sweet-tongued Wagma occupied hearts and minds of the Pashtun people on either side of the Durand Line for 28 years with her melodious songs. Wagma is suffering from cancer and presently admitted in Lady Reading ...

The concocted “Islamic State” in Afghanistan is nothing but a splintered group of Taliban which has adopted the name. However, Afghan jihadists have no interest in according allegiance to Arab Islamists. The Taliban’s contention is over resources and power such as heroin trade and smuggling chains. Another such splinter group is Afghan al Qaeda, which also tantamount to being a ...

Hundreds of local Pashtun tribesmen have uprisen against ISIS in the Achin district of Ningarhar province in Eastern Afghanistan, which borders Pakistan. According to Haji Ghalib, the governor of Achin, 600 local Pashtun tribesmen are helping the Afghan security forces in the battle against ISIS. He added that initially there were some 1500 ISIS terrorists in the border district of ...

Vladimir Putin: “50 years ago the leningrad street taught me one rule: if a fight is inevitable, we need to hit the first” News Desk The Pashtun Times: Last month the Russian president after meeting the US president at UN Security Council urged for an international coalition to fight the Islamist militancy in the Middle East. Two days after the ...

File Photo: US President Barack Obama President Obama’s decision to expand the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Syria is a reflection of the conflicting pressures on a commander in chief who doubts that military force alone can end the conflicts in those countries, but who also feels compelled to act in the face of a humanitarian catastrophe and a ...

According to a report of the NDTV Khan said that” politics and art should not be mixed.”In response to a question about the growing criticism of Pakistani actors working in the Indian cinema, Khan told that entertainment and art have no boundaries and therefore should not be mixed with politics. He said that if a Pakistani actor can fit in ...

An email released by WikiLeaks reportedly from the hacked personal email account of the U.S’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief John Brennan indicates that Pakistan has used terrorists as proxies to counter India’s growing influence in Afghanistan. The document states: “Efforts in the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) have been challenged by Pakistan’s ambivalence toward, and perhaps outright support for, ...

By Jamshed Khan BANNU: Maria Toorpakai Wazir was born in South Waziristan, Fata the so called “No Go Areas”, in a Pashtun family. Now days she is Pakistan’s top squash player ranked number 1 in Pakistan and 62nd at world level. She has recently defeated World Number 34, South Africa’s Siyoli Waters, to lift the trophy at the second Bahria ...

BANNU: Younis Khan is 38 years old Pakistan Pashtun cricketer who hails from Mardan but currently residing in Karachi. He has become the first test cricketer in Pakistan who scored over 9000 test runs and number 14th in the history of test cricket. Mr. Khan is also the third Pakistani player has scored more than 300 runs in an innings. ...

In response to a question about the current intolerance spree in India Shah Rukh Khan said that one’s eating habits are personal priorities and have nothing to do with religion. He termed the beef-related violence incidents in India as “silly”. He said that religion is the least discussed topic at his house and his kids are free to follow the ...