At least five US soldiers have sustained injuries during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, it has been reported. The US soldiers were reportedly partnering with the Afghan special forces during an operation in Nangarhar. The top US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has confirmed that five US soldiers were wounded in the last few days. Without ...

Samia’s neck had bruise mark, says autopsy report GUJRAT: The autopsy report of Samia Shahid, a British national of Pakistani origin who was allegedly murdered for ‘honour’ near Mangla on July 20, says there was a bruise mark on the neck and blood-stained froth was leaking from her mouth. To reach a conclusion regarding the actual cause of death, the ...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said agreement of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is confidential and cannot be made public. “Agreement of the economic corridor with China is sensitive and it cannot be disclosed,” Iqbal said in the Senate session. However, the minister handed over a sealed copy of the CPEC agreement to Chairman Senate ...

Video interview in Pashto: Visa and passport can’t separate Pashtuns across the Durand Line, says Dr. Abdullah Waheed Poyan, Afghan consul general in Peshawar. THE PASHTUN TIMES

KABUL: US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford has said military mission in Afghanistan was not complete and could not be completed in the near future. A media report said on Wednesday. During a joint Pentagon news briefing on Monday afternoon, US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter said that the United States would continue to ...

Five hundred years ago Machiavelli wrote: “A ruler must not worry about being labelled cruel when it’s a question of keeping subjects loyal and united. It is better to be feared than loved, for we can say of most people that they are ungrateful, unreliable, they lie, they fake, they are greedy. The ruler who has relied on promises is ...

Malalai was an Afghan heroine from the small village of Khig in Kandahar who played a major role in the Battle of Maiwand (July 27th, 1880) during the second Anglo-Afghan war. During the battle, when the tide turned against the Afghan fighters and their morale dropped, Malalai cried out: Young love if you do not fall in the battle of ...

KABUL: The United States will deploy at least 800 soldiers from an aviation unit to Afghanistan in a bid to support the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), it has been reported. According to Washington based Stars and Stripes newspaper, the unit will utilize Blackhawks, Chinooks and Apache helicopters with a primary mission of supporting Afghan military efforts. The ...

AFGHANISTAN: A video has gone viral shortly after it was shared online on social media websites which purportedly shows the Parkour moves by the individuals in Afghan police uniform. The video has surfaced online months after a similar video was published by an Afghan rapper to encourage the Afghan National and Defense Forces (ANDSF) as they are going through a ...

Beauty therapist Samia Shahid, 28, who died while visiting family in Pandori. — Photo courtesy: The Guardian/http://guardian.co.uk ISLAMABAD: British MP Naz Shah has written to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to intervene in the case of a British woman’s alleged honour killing in Pakistan, The Guardian reported. British police started a probe into Samia Shahid’s death after her husband Syed Mukhtar ...