Around 173,000 people killed and more than 183,000 seriously wounded since the US invasion in 2001, revealed the research Costs of War. According to the research paper which focuses on the wars’ deaths and injuries, the cost in human lives and health has been enormous in the two countries. A research report of the Watson Institute for International and Public ...

KABUL: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based notorious terrorist organization, trains nearly 360 terrorists yearly for anti-state activities in Afghanistan and India, said Indian investigators who grilled captured LeT operative Bahadur Ali. Ali alias Saifullah, a resident of Lahore, told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India that he saw 30-50 people being trained in camps of the terrorist group “any time ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban militants have released the crew of a Pakistani helicopter which crash-landed in central Logar province of Afghanistan earlier this month. The Pakistani intelligence officials have confirmed to Radio Free Europe that the crew members were handed over to the authorities in Kurram Agency on Friday. The officials have further added that seven people were taken hostage by ...

Pakistan’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz has said an intelligence sharing deal between the Afghan intelligence and Pakistani intelligence agencies could help counter terrorism. Speaking during a press conference on Friday, Aziz called on Afghanistan to help create a formal intelligence-sharing deal between National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). The call by Aziz came despite allegations ...

 During my recent trip to Berlin, I was invited to attend the final leg of the peaceful ‘long march’ campaign which was launched in Dusseldorf on the 16th July 2016, by a group of Baloch activists in an effort to raise awareness and highlight the violation of human rights in Balochistan. Coincidentally, I happened to be in Berlin on the ...

14th of August 1948 was celebrated in NWFP with drums and flags by Muslim League sponsored crowds. Just 2 days before, a painful and shamefule event of Babarha massacre occurred on 12 August 1948. Jinnah Sahib dismissed the legitimate government of Dr. Khan Sahib in June1948. A government of Muslim league leader, kashmiri born, Abdul Qayyum Khan was installed in ...

AFGHANISTAN: Members of Khudai Khidmatgar and Loy Afghanistan Movement observed Babra Massacre of Pashtuns today on 12 August in memory of 673 Khudai Khidmatgars killed by Pakistani forces on 12 August, 1948. The commemoration was held in Khas Kunar district of Kunar province where elders condemned the atrocities of the British and Pakistani forces on Pashtuns in general and especially the ...

PESHAWAR: The private hospitals have started to lay off employees after decrease in number of Afghan patients owing to the border management measures taken by the government, according to sources. “We cannot maintain more staff now. The number of patients has plummeted to 10 per cent only. We have lost 90 per cent patients, who used to come from different ...

Mr. Achakzai is being called a traitor for speaking the truth, Jahangir regrets. QUETTA: Former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and human rights activist Asma Jahangir on Thursday said that she would defend Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai in a court of law if a petition was filed against him for his criticism of intelligence ...

KABUL: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah, reacting to Pakistan’s accusations on Thursday, said the recent attack in Quetta City was a result of the country’s own policies. Abdullah was addressing the second death anniversary of Hashmat Khalil Karzai, brother of former president Hamid Karzai, in Kabul. The CEO strongly reacted to Pakistan’s military authorities over accusing Afghanistan and India ...