President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday blast Pakistan for exporting terror and providing safe hideouts to the militants. In his address at the 6th annual conference of Heart of Asia in India, Ghani said that the Taliban insurgency would not survive a month if it lost its sanctuary in neighboring Pakistan, urging its neighbor to take on militant groups on its ...

Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, who concluded his two-day visit to India Sunday, said India’ s efforts to divide Pakistan and Afghanistan on peace initiative “won’t go very far in the future”. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Sartaj said member countries unanimously adopted the “balanced declaration” at the end of the sixth Heart of Asia ministerial conference. “Member ...

AN Afghan migrant has admitted the rape and murder of a medical student, who also worked voluntarily at a refugee centre. Maria Ladenburger, the daughter of a high-ranking EU official, was returning from a party in the university city of Freiburg in Germany when she was assaulted on a cycle path. She was raped and then drowned before her body ...

At least 12 suspected terrorists were reportedly killed in air strikes in the Rajgal valley area of Khyber Agency on Sunday, Media reported. According to security sources several hideouts were also destroyed in the air strikes. Pakistan Air Force jets precisely targeted militant hideouts in Rajgal valley in which 12 militants were killed and several hideouts were destroyed, said security ...

ARMITSAR: Afghan President Dr Ashraf Ghani Sunday urged Pakistan to take real steps for elimination of terrorism as the sixth Heart of Asian Conference for peace and development in Afghanistan began in Amritsar today as Afghan. Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz is representing Pakistan in the conference. The conference is being attended by forty Foreign Ministers and dignitaries of ...

AMRITSAR: The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday that plans are underway to connect Afghanistan with India through air transport corridor. In his speech during the opening of the 6th Heart of Asia conference in Amritsar, Prime Minister Modi identified four key issues in supporting Afghanistan, beginning with an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled process. Second, he said, we must ...

KABUL: The commander of the US-led international forces in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson claimed the two countries were “legitimizing” the Taliban inside Afghanistan. In a briefing to the Pentagon, Gen. Nicholson, said: “Russia has overtly lent legitimacy to the Taliban and their narrative goes something like this that the Taliban are the ones fighting Islamic State, not the Afghan government.” ...

ROME: Italians vote on Sunday in a referendum on constitutional reform which will decide the political future of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has promised to resign if he loses. Financial markets and Europe’s politicians fear victory for the opposition ‘No’ camp could trigger political instability and renewed turmoil for Italy’s battered banks, pushing the euro zone towards a fresh crisis. ...

DI KHAN: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would create more job opportunities in different parts of the province including DI Khan. He was addressing a public rally here on Saturday. The chief minister also inaugurated Gomal Zam Dam commander area project on this occasion. He said that the government was trying ...

Islamic State militants have staged near simultaneous attacks on positions of state-sanctioned militias west and south of Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, apparently taking advantage of bad weather conditions that normally disrupt air support, two militia officials said on Saturday. One official said IS militants breached the defenses of Shia militiamen at a village west of the northern Iraqi town ...