ISLAMABAD: Decision makers should know that having more than one national language will not pose a threat to national security, and history shows that one language does not ensure a country will remain intact, said Punjabi writer Mushtaq Sufi. “A narrative is being constructed for the last 70 years that there should be one national language because that is the ...

KABUL: The Afghanistan Ambassador to Pakistan Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal has said he had constructive talks with Pakistan’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz and the Pakistani military regarding the recent upheavals. Zakhilwa said he passed on documents both to Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Pakistani military GHQ. “In addition, I had a very positive meeting with Mr Sartaj Aziz, Advisor ...

KABUL: The Afghan government has handed over a comprehensive list consisting of 32 sanctuaries being used by the Haqqani terrorist network in Pakistan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) said the list was handed over to Islamabad by the officials of the Afghan Embassy. According to a statement by MoFA, the list also includes the names of 82 ...

PESHAWAR: At least seven persons were killed and 20 other injured in a suicide attack on Tehsil Courts at Tangi town of Charsada district on Tuesday morning. The killed persons included a lawyer and two children. Conditions of at least three out of 13 injured that admitted in Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar are stated in danger, therefore, officials apprehending increase in number ...

KABUL: The series of terrorist attacks in Pakistan have targeted all the four provinces, including tribal-belt, administered by Pakistan. The loyalists of the so-called Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh terrorist carried out a bloody attack on the Sufi Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sindh province of Pakistan during as the devotees were busy performing a rituals ceremony ...

KABUL: While expressing his deepest sympathy with the victim-families of the recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abdullah Abdullah said “the only solution to end tragedy in the both sides is the honest approach of Islamabad in fight against terrorism.” Presiding the Council of Ministers meeting on Monday, Abdullah said, “the fundamental solution to the ongoing ...

KABUL: Hundreds of residents in eastern Kunar province took out to the streets on Monday morning to protest Pakistan artillery shelling, and were shouting anti-Pakistan slogans. Hundreds of residents of Asad-Abad, the capital city of Kunar province, staged a rally to give vent to their anger against Pakistan shelling, which so far killed two people. The anger protestors were chanting ...

KABUL: The US Secretary of Defense General John Nicholson has said that the next steps in war will be reviewed after discussions with the Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and commander of the US forces and NATO’s Resolute Support commander General John Nicholson. Mattis was speaking with the reporters after scraping a visit to Afghanistan due to bad weather condition. ...

KABUL: Thousands of residents in eastern Nangarhar province staged a rally on Sunday to protest Pakistan artillery shelling, shouting anti-Pakistan slogans. Around 4,000 residents of the Lalpura district took to the streets, chanting “death to Pakistan!”, “we hate you Pakistan!” and torched the neighboring country’s flag. The protestors said that artillery shelling by Pakistan still continues, and more than 2,000 ...

I can just say it again and again, I have never met any culture that was more hospitable as the Pashtuns. I have been welcomed in many places around the world but nobody went so far out of their way for their guests as the Pathans that I met, says Manolo Ty -a German artist, photographer and author of “Pakistan ...