I will never accept the Durand line, it’s the biggest injustice with Lar-aw-Bar Afghans, says Meher Aurangzeb Kasi in an interview with THE PASHTUN TIMES. (Soon to be followed by the full version of her interview) ميرمن کاسۍ وايي : د ډیورنډ کرښه د منلو وړ نۀ ده او ذیاته کړې یې ده چې افغان مېندې بچي دې د پاره ...

KABUL: The Hezb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has apologized to the victims of the devastating war the party was involved in 1990s, hours after the party signed the draft peace agreement with the Afghan government. A senior member of the party Qarib-ur-Rehman Syed told VOA’s Afghanistan service that “Hezb-e-Islami considers itself a member and party of the people. Hezb-e-Islami ...

NEW YORK: India has called Pakistan a “terrorist state” that hosts “the Ivy League of terrorism” while responding to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the UN General Assembly that raked up the Kashmir issue and sought a fact-finding mission into alleged brutalities. The response marked the latest round in a war of words that has escalated after Sunday’s terror ...

PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP), led by a Pashtun-nationalist politician Asfandyar Wali Khan, has called for an immediate end to the harassment of Afghan refugees in different parts of Pakistan. At a meeting of ANP’s Central General Council, chaired by Asfandyar Wali Khan, the party leader stressed the need for sorting out dispute with neighbors, particularly Afghanistan, on a priority ...

KABUL: The Ashraf Ghani administration and the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) on Thursday signed a landmark peace deal after two years of negotiations. On behalf of the government, the agreement was signed by High Peace Council (HPC) Chairman Pir Syed Ahmad Gilani and National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar. Eng. Mohammad Amin Karim and Political Affairs head Ghairat Baher affixed their ...

KARACHI: After the names of 259 Pakistanis with links to offshore companies surfaced in one of the world’s biggest-ever data called the Panama Papers in May, another cache of leaked documents emerged on Wednesday carrying the names of 150 Pakistanis who own companies in the Bahamas, a constellation of over 700 islands. The data shared by the International Consortium of ...

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly session on Wednesday, said Pakistan wants peace with India but maintained it is “not possible without resolving the Kashmir issue”. “Confrontation should not be our destiny in South Asia. Pakistan wants peace with India.” Nawaz asserted that peace can not be established in South Asia without resolving ...

KABUL: The Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) has agreed to embrace the country’s constitution and dismantle its armed wing under its peace agreement with the government. In return, the Ashraf Ghani administration has promised the release of HIA prisoners and lifting all restrictions on the group, reads the draft agreement, a copy of whichhas been obtained by Pajhwok Afghan News. Release of ...

Two powerful American lawmakers have introduced an act in the US House of Representatives to designate Pakistan a State Sponsor of terrorism, it has been reported. Congressman Ted Poe, who is Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, has reportedly said “It is time we stopped paying Pakistan for its betrayal and designate it for what it is: a state ...

SWAT: The PTI government in KhyberPakhtunkhwa has completely failed to fulfill its promises. Pashtuns must unite against a new bloody war on their soil. The leader of ANP, Wajid Ali Khan, talks to THE PASHTUN TIMES. د سوات سیمې سره تعلق لرونکې د عوامی نیشنل پارټی لیډر ښاغلې واجدعلی خان دی پشتون ټایمز سره په زنګړې مراکه کښې ویيلی دی چې ...