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KABUL: The International Cricket Council (ICC) was all poised to grant Ireland and Afghanistan their long-awaited Test status during upcoming annual meeting in London this week, according to a media report. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has submitted its application to the ICC for full membership, senior member of the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) advisory board has wrote on his ...

KABUL: An ex-commander of the Taliban militant group who has joined the peace process in eastern Nangarhar province, admitted that Taliban’s leadership is based in various parts of Pakistan. According to a statement issued by the provincial government of Nangarhar, the insurgent militants has embraced the peace and reconciliation process as a result of meaningful efforts carried out by the ...

KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the attack on police headquarters in southern Paktia province. In a statement, the ex-president called the attack an act by the enemy of Afghans against Islam and humanitarian law. The former president expressed deepest condolences to the victim families, wishing quick recovery for the wounded people of the incident. A car bomber and ...

KABUL: The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Pakistan on Sunday confirmed that two of its Jalalabad-based Consulate General officials have gone missing. According to the statement issued by the Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, the diplomats were on their way to their homeland, Pakistan on Friday, June 16th by car when they went missing. “The matter has been raised with the relevant Afghan ...

Ashfaq Ahmed, a famous Pakistani scholar and writer always emphasized and insisted to have get together with “baabey” (a term used for the senior citizens). Knowledge, information is not only found in books, there is indeed many things that can be obtained through these get together with baabey, but unfortunately, we are only finding out things and solutions in books ...

Another 4 years of broken promises & violated pledges for the people of Khyber Pakhtoon Khawah. The PTI-led government has failed to bring about even an iota of change that was promised to the common folks. While Sehat ka Insaaf and Taleem ka Insaaf sold out well on Facebook and among PTI’s supporters, who have never been to KPK. The ...

Book Review: “The Real Pashtun Question: How To Control Religious Extremism, Misogyny And Pedophilia”?  By: Dr. Farhat Taj 2017 Published By: Kautilya Books, New Delhi. Contents: Acknowledgements, Preface, Seven Chapters, Endnotes, Annexes, Abbreviations, Glossary, References, Map. pp.216. Reviewed by Angelina Merisi. Considering the enormous body of literature and scholarly works available concerning the Taliban movements and Pashtun socio-cultural and political ...

KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai, strongly condemned Thursday’s attack on a mosque in Kabul, saying “like other terrorist attacks it was organized outside the borders”. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the al-Zahra mosque in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, in which, four people were martyred and eight more injured. Among the martyrs was Hajji Ramazan Hosseinzadah, a ...

KABUL: The Saudi and Egyptian diplomats in separate meetings with former president Hamid Karzai, asked him to support the position of their respective countries against Qatar, Karzai’s office said Saturday. “The former president in meetings with Egyptian ambassador and Saudi charge d affairs to Kabul, called for the unity and solidarity of the Islamic World in fight against terrorism and ...

It has become almost a norm for Balochistan to make it to the headlines during every regional crises situation in the last so many decades. Afghanistan was accused by Pakistan for supporting Baloch nationalist uprisings that started in 1973 after the unconstitutional dissolution of the elected provincial government of Baloch nationalists by the Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto led federal government of ...