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KABUL:  The Afghan league for association football clubs (Afghan Premier League-APL) will be kicked off coming Thursday in Kabul, said officials. The ALP is a hope for Afghan among ash and smoke in this war weary country. Eight teams from eight different zone of Afghanistan came together here in Kabul to eat, talk, laugh, sleep and compete with each other, which generate a ...

HEIDELBERG: Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, called for a new hardline approach in Europe’s relations with Turkey on Tuesday, describing developments in the country as “worrying”. “The EU must not be divided on this issue. That would greatly weaken Europe,” she told German MPs. Mrs Merkel used her final speech to parliament before elections in three weeks to demand the release of several ...

KABUL: Kabul on Tuesday welcomed BRICS powers for condemning terrorist attacks and calling for an immediate end to the violence in Afghanistan, but Islamabad rejected the grouping’s claim that militant groups in Pakistan posed a regional security concern. The Afghan government hoped for a collective action against terrorism following the BRICS leaders meeting in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen and welcomed the ...

CHARSADDA: Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan has said that Afghan President Dr Ashraf Ghani’s negotiation offer to Pakistan is a positive step that will reduce tension between the two countries. Speaking at Ghazi Gul Baba Mosque after Eid prayers, he urged Pakistan to reciprocate positively because peace was prerequisite for stability and economic development. He said that unity ...

RIYADH: Fizzing with boyish exuberance, Saudi programmer Zainalabdin Tawfiq could be mistaken for a college freshman, but the popularity of his “honesty” app has shone a spotlight on the conservative kingdom’s nascent tech scene. Tawfiq catapulted to fame when he took time out of his day job as a business analyst last year to develop an anonymous messaging tool called Sarahah — ...

XIAMEN: The leaders of the five emerging market BRICS powers have for the first time named militant groups allegedly based in Pakistan as a regional security concern and called for their patrons to be held to account. India welcomed the move — which participated at a summit in the Chinese city of Xiamen — as an important step forward in ...

US President Donald Trump declared on Sunday that “appeasement with North Korea” will not work, after Pyongyang claimed it had successfully tested a missile-ready hydrogen bomb. “North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test,” Trump said. “Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States.” His comments came hours after the US Geological Survey ...

PESHAWAR: The Pashtun Times congratulates Eid-ul-Adha to all the Pashtuns/Afghans and Muslims around the world. The Pashtun Times hopes this Eid would bring lasting blessing, happiness and peace to the people of Afghan/Pashtun land and the world. The Pashtun Times

KABUL: President Mohamamd Ashraf Ghani on Friday said attacks on religious places was attack on Afghanistan and carried out by miscreants. Addressing reporters after the Eid-ul-Adha prayer at the mosque of Presidential Palace the president said he was proud of Afghanistan for having national unity and religious harmony. The president congratulated Eid-ul-Adha to the entire nation special to security forces of the country. “I ...

The verdicts are the first to be issued since Bhutto, the first female prime minister of a Muslim country, was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack nearly a decade ago, sparking street violence and plunging Pakistan into months of political turmoil. ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court Thursday branded former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir ...