KABUL: In according to Pakistan government’s decision of management on the Durand Line, no one is allowed to enter Afghanistan without passport at Torkham from Sunday (January 1st 2017). However, tribesmen from Shinwari and Afridi tribes are exempted of passport and visa restrictions and they are allowed to travel between the two countries on showing of National Identity Cards or Special ...

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In the mid 1980s when the Cold War was at its peak and things had heated up in Afghanistan, the former Soviet statesman Mikhail Gorbachev described Afghanistan as a country that had turned into a bleeding wound. Unfortunately, apart from some brief intervals, the unlucky country hasn’t seen peace in the true sense of the word throughout the last four ...

Claiming descent from the armies of Alexander the Great, the Kalash once ruled Kafiristan ‘land of the infidels’, an area which stretched across the north of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The unfortunate crash that killed the pop-musician-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed amongst many others, seems to have created a media frenzy. While the Pakistani media landscape is preoccupied with his pop music legacy ...

1 January 2017 By Secretary-General António Guterres On my first day as Secretary-General of the United Nations, one question weighs heavily on my heart. How can we help the millions of people caught up in conflict, suffering massively in wars with no end in sight? Civilians are pounded with deadly force. Women, children and men are killed and injured, forced ...

HEIDELBERG: An Afghan migrant attacked a Bible-reading woman in a refugee camp in Austria, it has been reported. The 50-year-old woman was reportedly attacked by a 22-year-old Afghan migrant whose identity has not been disclosed by the authorities yet. According to the local media reports, citing the police authorities, the man has confessed he attacked the woman and described ‘personal ...

TURKEY: At least one gunman shot his way into an Istanbul nightclub packed with hundreds of New Year’s revellers on Sunday, killing 35 people and wounding more than 40 in what the provincial governor described as a terrorist attack. One assailant shot a police officer and a civilian as he entered the Reina nightclub before opening fire at random inside, ...

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KABUL: The leaders of the Afghan unity government have invited the new Pakistani army chief General  Qamar Javed Bajwa to visit Afghanistan, the media wing of the Pakistani military said Saturday. According to a statement by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor, the invitation was extended by the Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief ...

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan-China Joint Cooperation Committee has approved three Khyber Pakhtunkhwa projects. However, it is not immediately clear whether the much-touted alternate route connecting the proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor with Central Asian Republics via northern districts of the province is among the projects approved by the committee. Three alternate routes proposed by the KP government suggest linking the corridor with ...