QUETTA: Reacting to the Quetta commission report, Balochistan High Court Bar Association (BHCBA) has demanded the resignation of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, president BHCBA Ghani Khilji said that the Quetta commission report has exposed the incompetence and negligence of the ministers, therefore, they ...

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) Thursday observed 4th death anniversary of Bashir Ahmad Bilour and paid rich tributes to him for his services for Pakthuns and province. On 22 December 2012, Bilour was leaving after attending a meeting of ANP workers in Peshawar, when he was attacked and critically injured by a suicide bomber. He was rushed to Lady Reading ...

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday that attacks this week in Berlin and Ankara proved he was correct to propose curbing Muslim immigration to the United States. “What’s going on is terrible, terrible,” Trump told reporters, when asked about the truck attack that killed 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin and the killing of Russia’s ambassador to ...

The Pakistani military has resumed artillery shelling in southern Kandahar and eastern Kunar provinces of Afghanistan as Afghanistan summons the country’s ambassador to lodge a protest over indiscriminate shelling. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) said the Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan Syed Abrar Hussain was summoned over the recent artillery shelling from the side of Durand Line by ...

KABUL: The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi agree long term commitment to future security and stability in Afghanistan. In a statement posted on its website, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at UK said that Beijing and London remain committed to their long term support for the government of Afghanistan and its people. “The future security ...

Stylish batsmen and popular wicket-keeper Mohammad Shahzad has been awarded as ICC Associate/Affiliate Cricketer of the Year. This is this first time for an Afghan player to win the award in recognition his outstanding performance. Shahzad was honored by the leading world cricket body for finishing as the leading ODI run-scorer with 699 runs in 16 one-day matches. Afghanistan’s Mohammad ...

KABUL: A group of armed insurgents attacked the house of a renowned member of Wolesi Jirga, Malim Mir Wali, on Wednesday late evening in Kabul. Seven people were killed and six others sustained injuries in the attack, said officials. The Taliban fighters, including suicide bombers, attacked the house of Mir Wali, who is a lawmaker from southern Helmand province. The ...

Heidelberg: Candlelight vigil for the victims of the fighting in Aleppo By Aurang Zeb Khan Zalmay THE PASHTUN TIMES  

Since the launch of operation zarb-e-azab, the residents of North Waziristan were desperately waiting for a date of their return to North Waziristan. They left their homes with a hope that the displacement would no be more than a few months. Being one of them I was also living in the same state of mind. After being in that situation ...

A Muslim girl refused to shake the hand of the German president despite him visiting her school to praise students for integrating migrants so well. Footage has emerged of the visit of Joachim Gauck to the Theodor Heuss School in Offenbach at the end of last month. It shows him arriving at the school in his official car with students ...