KABUL: The US President Barack Obama approved $ 3.4 billion annual defense budget for Afghan security forces under – the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2017. In addition to that, announced $ 400 $ 900 million funds to Pakistan in a condition on a defense Secretary Certification that is taking demonstrable steps against the Haqqani Network. The funds to preserve ...

All Ahli Ketab followers, whether they be Muslims, Christians or Jews, are cousins, and their enmity is quite like that of Pashtoon cousins. When Pashtoon cousins become each other’s enemy, they do not care that we are the grandchildren from one grandfather, that we have one religion that is Islam, we speak one language, and we have one tribe. Ahli ...

Peshawar Zalmi team owner Javed Afridi has met Malala Yousufzai and her family in the UK and presented them with Peshawar Zalmi merchandise. Afridi also mentioned meeting Ahmad Nawaz, an APS survivor, in a tweet. On the occasion, Malala said sports is a platform which brings people together and the people of KP are peace loving. She added that she ...

Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, celebrating Christmas for the first time since 2013, their joy tainted with sadness over the desecration of their church. Once home to thousands of Assyrian Christians, Bartella emptied in August 2014 when it fell to Islamic State’s blitz across large parts of Iraq and ...

Security for the long Christmas weekend was heightened throughout Italy and at the Vatican on Saturday following the killing by police of the man believed to be responsible for the Berlin market truck attack. As investigators sought to determine if Anis Amri had accomplices in Italy, and associates of the 24-year-old were arrested in his home country of Tunisia, national ...

Tunisia arrested the nephew of the suspected Berlin truck attacker and two other jihadist suspects who are “connected” to the Tunisian assailant Anis Amri, the interior ministry said Saturday. A statement said the three suspects, aged between 18 and 27, were arrested on Friday and were members of a “terrorist cell… connected to the terrorist Anis Amri”. It made no ...

ISLAMABAD: As the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have conveyed their refusal to fund the $14-billion Diamer-Bhasha dam project, the government is planning to lease the Ghazi-Barotha hydroelectric power project to raise financing. Earlier, the World Bank had declined to provide funds for the project following Pakistan’s refusal to get a no-objection certificate from India for construction of the ...

GWADAR: The Balochis­tan government has imposed with immediate effect a ban on transfer of land in the port city of Gwadar for three months. The provincial revenue department has issued an official notification in this regard. Gwadar Deputy Commis­sioner Dr Tufail Ahmed Baloch said on Friday that the ban had been imposed on transfer of all kinds of lands. He ...

PESHAWAR: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information and Higher Education, Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani, has rejected claims of the federal government and media reports regarding the award of a multi-billion rupee ad contract of print and electronic media campaign to a company in which certain PTI members supposedly hold interests. Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club on ...

At least one person was shot dead in Kohistan following an argument between Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and locals over the alleged assault of a taxi driver by FC men on Saturday. Station House Officer (SHO) Dasu Muhammad Haq Hashmi told Dawn an argument erupted between FC personnel and a taxi driver when the taxi hit a passing FC convoy ...