Pashto Interview: Umair Khan- Pashtun social activist from Swat and member Liberal Party of Canada talks to THE PASHTUN TIMES THE PASHTUN TIMES

PESHAWAR: Speakers, at a study circle, have stressed the need for evolving a comprehensive Pakhtun cultural narrative to achieve national objectives. The discussion was conducted under the auspices of Bacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation at the University Town here on Saturday. The topic of the study circle was ‘basics of a successful national political movement’. Delegates from Afghanistan, Balochistan, Fata ...

Is this a country for Muslims or for Islam? This is the dilemma that Pakistan has faced from day one. For the majority of Muslim League leaders, Pakistan was to be a country for Muslims where they could live their lives without any fear of domination. The idea of Pakistan as a country for Islam took root later when the ...

PAJHWOK: Hundreds of US military personnel will deploy to southern Helmand province in the spring to help train Afghan security forces, a military website says. Around 300 troops from II Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, would join the NATO mission to train the Afghan National Army’s 215th Corps and the 505th Zone National Police. The ...

KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai has expressed condolences on the sad demise of renowned historian and researcher Dr. Mohammad Hassan Kakar, calling it a “great loss” for the country’s education and culture. Kakar, 88, died Thursday night in a California hospital. He was living in the United States. “Regretfully, Dr. Mohammad Hassan Kakar, a great historian, researcher and famous intellectual ...

The Department of Defense said Thursday that Afghanistan still dangerous and challenges remain there, reaffirming the US support to the Afghan government and security forces. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook told reporters that U.S. military presence in Afghanistan continues to provide support to the Afghan government and its armed forces “so that they can secure the country for themselves.” He ...

EIGHT years ago Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart wrote a book called “Fixing Failed States”. Now Mr Ghani is in a position to follow his own advice. He is the president of Afghanistan, a state that failed in the 1990s and could fail again. State failure causes untold misery (see article). Broadly defined, it is the main reason poor countries ...

Om Puri was an arts student in Khalsa College, Patiala, when local thespian Harpal Tiwana was invited there to judge a talent fest. For an hour, as Puri took stage in a Punjabi play, Tiwana was awestruck, and later invited him to join his theatre group, Punjab Kala Manch. That proved to be turning point, though it almost did not ...

The United States designed the son of Osama bin Laden’s son a special designated global terrorist, the State Department said Thursday. “The Department of State has designated Hamza bin Laden as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) under section 1(b) of Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which imposes sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed, or pose a serious risk ...

KABUL: At least 13 coal miners were killed and three more were injured when they were attacked by insurgents in northern Baghlan province of the country on Friday, officials said. The attack which happened at 2:30pm in Tala wa Barfak district has not been claimed by any insurgent group, governor’s spokesman, Mahmood Haqmal told Afghanistan Times. The victims, all from ...