KABUL: A Pakistani helicopter has crash-landed in the central Logar province of Afghanistan earlier today, the provincial council officials said. A member of the provincial council Dr. Abdul Wali Wakil said the helicopter crash-landed in the restive Azra district and all 6 on board were captured by the militants. Provincial governor’s spokesman Salim Saleh has confirmed to RFE that the ...

KABUL: A fire has reportedly broken out in the Abasin Zadran cloths market in Mirwais Maidan area of the capital Kabul on Thursday. An eyewitness Edress Ahmad told Pajhwok Afghan News that the fire was erupted in the top storey of the Market around 10:00am this morning. He said some people believed it was a suicide bombing inside the market and ...

Pakistan will not receive $300 million in military reimbursements from the United States due to Islamabad’s lack of action against the Haqqani terrorist network operating from its safe havens in Pakistan. A US official has said the Pentagon Chief Ash Carter has decided not to tell Congress that Pakistan was taking adequate action against the Haqqani network. “The funds could ...

KABUL: The provincial police chief of the southern Kandahar province General Abdul Raziq has reportedly put a ban on Pakistani Rupees in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. In the meantime the Dollar rates against the Afghani currency witnessed an unprecedented reduction in the main exchange market of Kabul city, Sarai Shahzada – Shahzada Market, today. There has been a reduction ...

EDITORIAL: The world is awakening to the fact that facilitation of refugees both in terms of integration and repatriation is of utmost significance for harmonious socio-cultural and politico-economic dispensation around the globe. There seems to be a widespread realization that the scars in the hearts of refugee families due to leaving their hearths and homes in the midst of natural ...

─Dawn screengrabs PESHAWAR: A local court in Chitral on Tuesday sent the principal of a private school to jail on judicial remand for assaulting minor students. Drosh police registered a first information report under the Child Protection Act against the principal of The Learners Public School, Drosh. —Screengrab The teacher, identified as Inamul Kabir, was soon arrested after a video ...

We are all Afghans and I endorse what Mehmud Khan Achakzai has said about Afghans, Eng. Ajmal Shams, president Afghanistan Social Democratic Party, talks to THE PASHTUN TIMES THE PASHTUN TIMES

RAWALPINDI: As many as 650 Pakistanis are said to be fighting in the conflict zones of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Central Asian states along with different foreign organisations. Intelligence agencies have so far identified 132 of them and expressed the fear that their return after being defeated by international forces might add to sectarian strife in Pakistan. After receiving ...

Officials at the Haripur DC office told news media, the administration has asked Afghan nationals to relocate to camp areas with their businesses within 30 days. PHOTO: REUTERS HARIPUR:  The district administration has asked Afghan refugees to either relocate within next 30 days or be ready to face the music. The move was part of the campaign that was intiated ...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during an event for foreign investors, in Ankara. —AP ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday accused the West of supporting “terror” and the coup plotters who tried to unseat him, in his toughest attack on Ankara’s Western allies since the July 15 attempted putsch. “Unfortunately, the West is supporting terror and standing ...