The United States announced on Wednesday that it was adding the student wing of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to its list of “foreign terrorist organisations”. The State Department move against the student group, al Muhammadia Students, came as the Treasury Department added two Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders to the US list of “specially designated global terrorists,” subjecting them to US sanctions. LeT was ...

Donald Trump has questioned the effectiveness of the United Nations, saying it’s just a club for people to “have a good time”. The statement came days after the UN Security Council voted to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The president-elect wrote Monday on Twitter that the UN has “such great potential,” but it has become ...

KABUL: The Afghanistan Women’s National Football Team will face India in their opening match of the South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship 2016. The championship has been hosted by India and will be played from 26th December to 4th of January. The Afghan team is playing in Group B of the championship alongside India and Bangladesh. The second match will ...

A multi-sided agent, Chaman Gul, planned to assassinate the US ambassador and Hamid Karzai when he was President of Afghanistan, revealed a new WikiLeaks cable release. The cable was sent by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay to the US Department of Defense on August 17, 2005. According to the cable released by the whistleblower, Chaman Gul, a resident of ...

Democratic transition in Pakistan after every martial law gets prolonged and complicated as duality in the power center exists even after the formal end of the military dictatorship. The deep state brazenly continues its shenanigans as weak civilian dispensation tries to find its feet. The aforementioned phenomenon has been visible after the general elections in February 2008, that have supposedly ...

Nilofer Rahmani the first ever Afghan female pilot seeks asylum in the USA Due to inappropriate workplace, discrimination and harassment imposed; urged her to become an immigrant in the USA and what she declared that still she is passionate to be a pilot and is ready to work in air force institutions, but not in Afghanistan. In fact she is ...

KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) of the parliament expressed “deepest concerns” over Russia relation with the Taliban and Moscow’s interference in internal affairs of Afghanistan. The lawmakers asked the government to take action against Moscow that will host a meeting with the participant of China and Pakistan to discuss on Afghanistan’s situation. “Hosting a meeting by Moscow ...

KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Monday its operatives arrested a group of five armed robbers in capital Kabul. In a statement, the NDS said the terrorists were identified as Farhad son of Abdul Ahad, Zabiullah son of Rahimullah, Farshid son of Payanda Mohammad, Mohammad Nazir son of Mohammad Karim and Khan Mohammad son of Haji Zarkhan. “They ...

KABUL: The Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) on Sunday released a guideline titled “Supporting women active participation in peace process”, urging the government to boost up women’s role in real in peace process. The guideline included women activists’ views from capital and provinces, which termed women’s role weak and symbolic in peace process. “Research in 2015 revealed that ...

The Awami National Party, ANP, led provincial government (2008- 2013) of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province came under relentless Taliban terror attacks. The Pashtun nationalist ANP lost over seven hundred workers, activists, supporters and their family members, including legislators. One of the assassinated legislators is Bashir Bilour (1943-2012). Bilour, an ANP stalwart educated as a lawyer and a resident of Peshawar, was ...