NAGPUR: India is planning to build affordable homes in Afghanistan meant for refugees in the country, as a part of its efforts to rebuild the war torn nation. There will be focus on sectors like irrigation and distribution of medicines too, said M Subbarayudu, the joint secretary for development partnership agreement, in the Indian ministry of external affairs. He was ...

PARACHINAR: (BY ANWAR ZEB) Maria Kumari lowers her head and touches the tip of her nose with her index finger, She lips moving silently in prayers. She is offering the Kamaya Karam – a religious prayer to get her wishes granted. Her whole family pray in the upper story of their house instead of a Mandar, or a temple for ...

GERMANY: A man died and two other people were injured after a 35-year-old German man drove into a crowd standing near a bakery at Bismarckplatz of Heidelberg on Saturday, but the authorities told THE PASHTUN TIMES there were no indications that it was a terrorist attack. The 73-year-old man who died in hospital from his injuries was also German. The two ...

KABUL: At least 343 army officers including several female officers graduated from Kabul military academy on Thursday. The newly-graduated army officers received their graduation certificates during a ceremony attended by high level government officials, including President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. Defense Minister Abdullah Habibi said the Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim military academy is one of the pioneer institutions from which at ...

It is official now. The Punjab police has issued written instructions to its personnel to keep an eye on people with Pashtun/Afghan dresses and food habits as terror suspects. Police officials of Mandi Bahaudin were not shy of widely circulating written instructions for profiling of Pashtuns/Afghans with interesting details in this regard. According to credible press reports Punjab police is ...

KABUL: Hundreds of Kabul residents including politicians and civil society activists on Thursday took out to the streets to give vent to their anger against Pakistan for its “continuing support to the militancy, and the recent shelling on resident areas in eastern provinces of the country. While chanting anti-Pakistani slogans, the demonstrators called on the International Community not to turn ...

LAHORE: As many as 217 Hindu pilgrims arrived here on Wednesday through Wagah border on a seven-day tour to participate in Shivratri (night of Shiva) celebrations at the Katasraj temple in Pothohar area of Punjab. The pilgrims, led by Shiv Partap Bajaj, were received by Evacuee Trust property Board Chairman Saddiqul Farooq. Welcoming the delegation, the chairman said Prime Minister ...

KABUL: Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah has said peace is possible with the Taliban group but their safe havens must be eliminated first. Abdullah made the remarks during a meeting with a delegation of the European Parliament. He said there have been developments recently in Afghan peace process and reconciliation with Taliban is likely however their safe havens and ...

Crackdown on Pashtuns is on the directive of Punjab government: Punjab police LAHORE: In a clear display of racial bias, citizens have been asked to report any persons of Pashtun descent to the Punjab police as part of an ongoing crackdown launched against terrorists in the province after the February 13 Mall Road bombing. Claiming that people belonging to the ...

French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon’s grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter. Le Pen, among the frontrunners for the presidency, is using a two-day visit to Lebanon to bolster her foreign policy credentials nine weeks from the April 23 ...