BANNU: Civil administration of North Waziristan has made arrangements for arrival of around 200 families, who have crossed the Durand Line towards Khost Province of Afghanistan with commencing of military action Zarb-i-Azab against militants in June 2014. These Temporary Displaced People (TDP) families would enter North Waziristan at Ghulam Khan crossing point between the two countries late on Monday. From ...

KABUL: The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are fully prepared for the 2017 fighting season. The remarks were made by the Minister of Interior (MoI) general Taj Mohammad Jahid during a gathering in Kabul to mark the graduation of the Afghan Nationa Police (ANP) cadets. A group of 450 Afghan National Police cadets graduated on Monday after completing ...

AFGHANISTAN: Hashim Karzai, the cousin of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has succumbed to injuries he sustained in a deadly bombing in Kandahar last week. Sources close to the victim’s family have said Hashim died of his wounds while receiving treatments in a hospital in India. Hashim Karzai was a trader and his death has been confirmed by the provincial ...

KABUL: The Pakistani army chief of staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa called President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani following a series of deadly bombings in capital Kabul and other key provinces to condole the terrorist attacks that left scores of people dead or wounded. According to an official statement released by media wing of the Pakistani military “Chief of Army Staff (COAS) ...

KABUL: Several members of the Harakat-e-Inqelab-e-Islami (Movement of Islamic Revolution), a former jihadi party, met the former president Hamid Karzai, and commended him for his 13 years long services as the president of the country, the ex-president’s office said on Saturday. “They offered Karzai a letter of appreciation for his services,” it added. The members of the former jihadi party ...

KABUL: The number of terrorist attacks is on the rise in Afghanistan, and security situation in Afghanistan remained a challenging, Russian officials said. “We urge the warring parties in Afghanistan, primarily the leaders of the Taliban movement, to renounce violence and to take urgent action to launch intra-Afghan dialogue,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told newsmen in Moscow. Hinting ...

KABUL: The US defense secretary-designate General James Mattis has said the Taliban group is still using the Pakistani soil for insurgency in Afghanistan and the sanctuaries of the group along with the associated militant networks in the country is a key operational issue faced by Afghan forces. At his confirmation hearing at the Senate Armed Forces Committee on Thursday afternoon, ...

Enforced disappearances have remained a serious problem in terms of violation of human rights in Pakistan for a long time. But the scale and magnitude that this problem has acquired over the last one decade is frightening. The fourth military operation that started in Balochistan against Baloch nationalists in 2005 saw a growing number of Baloch political activists getting disappeared. ...

DUBAI: Those coward people who are trying to hack “The Pashtun Times” Facebook’s page, twitter and website are no lesser than the enemies of “Freedom of Expression”. The Pashtun Times team believes in strong democratic arguments in a peaceful manner. We speak beyond narratives and appreciate others to deal with us in sophisticated and professional way. Instead of hacking our ...

The Bollywood actor will be one of the Oxford Union’s speakers from the world of sport, media and culture. Katrina Kaif isn’t just a sought-after star in Bollywood. The Baar Baar Dekho actor has been asked to speak at talks hosted by Oxford University’s debating society The Oxford Union, and she’ll be joining renowned personalities from all over the world. ...