The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed India’s support to Afghanistan in his message on the occasion of the inauguration of the Storay Palace which was recently rehabilitated with the support of India. Speaking through video teleconference to the ceremony participants, Modi said the inauguration of the palace in Kabul has more fundamental dimesnions of the friendship between the two ...

QUETTA: NATO supplies, Afghan transit trade and business activities on both sides of the border remained suspended on the third consecutive day on Sunday as Pakistan kept the border with Afghanistan closed. Pakistan shut the border at Chaman on Friday after an Afghan mob burnt a Pakistani flag and attacked the Friendship Gate on Thursday. A flag meeting between border ...

KARACHI: Head of his own faction of the Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman warned the Sindh government on Sunday to refrain from making laws ‘discriminatory against madressahs’ and other religious bodies, otherwise religious leaders, scholars and cadres would have no other option but to take ‘direct action’. “Those who are targeting madressahs are serving the agenda of their foreign ...

KABUL: First Vice-President General Abdul Rashid Dostum on Sunday called on President Ashraf Ghani and the two leaders conferred on the security situation in north and northeastern provinces. A statement from the Presidential Palace said Dostum briefed the president about his visit to Turkey and the security situation in northern provinces and the overall social life there. The statement said ...

Pakistan using terrorism as tool against immediate neighbors  The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Pakistan is still using terrorism as a tool against its immediate neighbors. In his speech at a think tank in New Delhi, Karzai said ‘the war on terror has failed to discourage Pakistan from using terrorism and religious radicalism as tools against its immediate ...

KHOST CITY: Mullah Abdul Rauf Arafi has been appointed as new leader of a Talibansplinter group, led by Mullah Rasoul, the group’s spokesman Mullah Abdul Rahman Niazi said on Saturday. In a telephonic conversation, Niazai told Pajhwok Afghan News Mullah Arafi had been appointed by a 13-member executive council of the group. He is a resident of the Spin Boldak district ...

A deadly persists among Afghanistan and Pakistan along the Durand Line close to Chaman city, the capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan. The two sides failed to resolve tensions as the gate between the two countries remains closed since Thursday. Gen. Mohammad from Afghanistan participated in talks with the Pakistani side led by Gen. Jahazeeb to resolve the issue but ...

An Afghan cleric who was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was close to Afghan Taliban group, it has been reported. Sheikh Ghulam Hazrat was among three religious clerics who have been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Pakistan during the recent days. His father Sheikh Khwaja Muhammad Hazrat was also killed along with him ...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, applied for a new Pakistani passport 11 weeks ago but has not yet received it, he has told Dawn. But an official at the Pakistan Embassy, Washington, dispelled the impression that the government had decided not to issue a passport to the former ambassador for his alleged anti-Pakistan views. Since ...

Afghan women and children wait for verification of documents at the UN repatriation centre in Chamkani, Peshawar, on Friday. — White Star PESHAWAR: The United Nations Voluntary Repatriation Centre (VRC) in Peshawar is unable to cope with the unexpected surge in the number of repatriating Afghan refugees, who traveled from Punjab and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but got stuck for ...