AُT-PESHAWAR: Afghan national and National Geographic famous face Sharbat Gula was admitted in a hospital here on Wednesday. Her application for release on bail was rejected by a Special Court at Peshawar today (Wednesday). The rejection comes despite Pakistani’s interior minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Sunday that his country would review Gula’s case on the grounds that “she ...

The Afghanistan National Beach Soccer team has made a considerable gain in the World Ranking of Beach Soccer by climbing 51 points to rise to 57 in the world from its previous ranking of 108. The Afghanistan National Football Federation (AFF) informed regarding the latest ranking of the Beach Soccer ranking. According to AFF, the latest ranking puts Afghanistan ahead ...

KABUL: Taliban insurgents have destroyed some 300 schools in the past two months as they wage war on education, local officials said on Monday. The latest attack was three days ago when Taliban burst into a girls’ school in northern Jawzjan province at night, beating up security guards and burning down the school, which has about 500 students. “The Taliban ...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would form a commission to investigate revelations in the Panama Papers leaks that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family owned offshore assets worth millions of dollars. The court’s decision came a day ahead of opposition leader Imran Khan’s planned “lockdown” of the national capital to pressure Sharif to step down or order a probe ...

Shelling from across the border killed seven civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s border districts on Tuesday as Pakistan continued to pound Indian villages and army posts, the latest flare-up between the two countries amid plummeting bilateral ties. Police said two children – a five-year-old and a seven-year-old– and a woman were killed in Ramgarh’s Rangoor Camp. Two women died in ...

A group commander of the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group was arrested during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The ISIS commander, Sefatullah, was arrested by the counter-terrorism forces of the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan. Sefatullah is said to be originally hailing from the Laghman province and was involved in ...

The famous Afghan woman ‘Afghan Mona Lisa’ will likely be released on bail from the Pakistan jail today, days after she was sentenced by a court for possessing fake Pakistani ID card. The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal said two Afghan diplomats managed to meet Gula in Peshawar prison on Monday, assuring that Gula is in a good ...

Pakistan has asked the Taliban leaders to leave the country with their family members if they sidelined Islamabad from peace talks with the Afghan government, it has been reported. Two senior Taliban leaders quoted in a report by VOA’s Afghanistan service have said that Pakistan have warned the group that Islamabad should not be sidelined from the talks. According to ...

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari slammed the country’s Interior Minister for having a photo session with the Taliban hours after a deadly attack on Quetta police academy. Speaking to reporters after visiting the injured police cadets, Bilawal said the minister met with the Taliban and had a photo session with them less than 48 hours after the Quetta ...

KABUL: At least 5,523 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) lost their lives in the first 8 months of the year 2016, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has said in a report. The quarterly report by SIGAR was published on Sunday amid deteriorating security situation across the country with the rampant Taliban-led ...