Author Archives: The Pashtun Times

Congratulation Message from Iftikhar Durrani, Poet and Senior Lawyer

Many many congratulations and I assure you of my all sort of contributions for THE PASHTUN TIMES. Please go ahead and do not worry, Insha’allah, it will be a great success. Regards: Adv. Iftikhar Durrani, poet and senior lawyer. THE PASHTUN TIMES

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Congratulation Message from Mehfooz Jan, President ANP United Kingdom

I am deeply touched and feel amazed to hear the news of launching ‘THE PASHTUN TIMES’ an online news paper. I feel proud for having such brilliant youngster among our society who feel the pain and sufferings of our downtrodden masses. Hope you and you colleagues will do their best to bring the true picture of current situation and highlight ...

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Congratulation Message from Rainer Schäfer: Leader of The Violets Party Oberhausen, Germany

Dear Aurang Zeb Khan Zalmay, as the leader of “The Violets”, party of Oberhausen, Germany, I send you my congrats to your new founded newspaper ” The Pashtun Times”, to inform indigenous Pashtuns about social and political processes. With an independent and objective sight on best articles to contribute to peace and agreement between nations by the responsibility of media ...

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Congratulation Message from Claudia Wädlich, German Writer and Politician

Congratulations to you and your team on launching ‘The Pashtun Times’. I already had the honor to contribute with an article about Germany and the refugees. Hoping of good working together and a sense for interesting developments in politics and social life, to present and inform Pashtuns the best about. Best Regards from Germany. Claudia Wädlich Writer and Politician THE ...

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Congratulation Message from Dr. Khadim Hussian: Director, Baacha Khan Education Foundation

The need for construction of indigenous narrative, objective analysis of social and political issues and communicating indigenous voices to the wider world is self-evident. Mr. Aurangzeb Zalmay and his team are upto a great task to meet part of this need by bringing out The Pashtun Times. I congratulate them and wish them all success in this great endeavor. Khadim ...

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Congratulation Message from Ghazi Siyaal: Well-known Pashto Poet and Writer

Congratulations to Aurang Zeb Khan Zalmay and his team on launching THE PASHTUN TIMES. I am much happy to hear about THE PASHTUN TIMES and appreciate them for their efforts and wish them success. I am together with them in their future endeavours for THE PASHTUN TIMES. Ghazi Siyaal, Bannu THE PASHTUN TIMES

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No Good Guys can be Wise Guys

United States Congressman Charles Wilson wistfully exclaims at the end of the movie version of his biography, Charlie Wilson’s War (2007): ‘These things happened, they were great and glorious, But we F–d up the end game’, These words rang in memories of those who know the region and Afghanistan; and the devastation inflicted on this unfortunate corner of the earth ...

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No Zero-sum Game for India in Afghanistan

Cooperation between New Delhi and Beijing could be a game changer for the stability of the region There is a certain – surprising amount of unease ahead of the visit of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in New Delhi.  India has been consistently among the largest donor nations in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 and is ...

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The Curriculum in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

A well-known fact in the educational discourse of Pakistan has been devising a curriculum for public schools that constructed an isolationist mindset over the years. A mindset that glorified war, considered everything different as ‘the other’ and hence an enemy, reinforced patriarchal nature of gender and distorted history to make it compatible with the needs of hyper nationalism. An Education ...

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The Substandard of Academic Society

I am the substandard of the academic branch of social activities in Pakistan. I have the student-position in university. Pedagogy, however, fills the middle chambers of the academic order; and a politically highly backward establishment of Pakistan orders universities. Countries where universities are ordered by politically backward establishments, unfortunately, do not feel the need for thought and science in society. ...

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