FRANCE: At least 84 people lost their lives after a truck plowed into pedestrians during Bastille Day celebrations in the popular French seaside city of Nice on Thursday. The French President Francois Hollande called the incident ‘obviously a terrorist attack’. In his address earlier this morning, Hollande pledged to step u efforts to fight terror in Iraq and Syria while ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani ordered the airstrike that killed the mastermind of several deadly attacks in Pakistan including the Peshawar school and the Bacha Khan University massacres, the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad said on Thursday. Dr. Omar Zakhilwal wrote on his Facebook page that President Ghani ordered the July 9 airstrike on Khalia Omar Mansour, aka Khalid Khorasani, after Afghan ...

BRUSSELS: EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos addresses the media at the EU Commission headquarters on Wednesday.—AP BRUSSELS: The European Commission proposed more unified EU asylum rules on Wednesday, in a bid to stop people waiting for refugee status moving around the bloc and disrupting its passport-free zone. In an unprecedented wave of migration last year, ...

PESHAWAR: As active combat operations are reaching their ultimate end, the Army has assumed the monitoring role in education and health sectors in Fata, insist multiple sources. A relevant official confided to Dawn that political agents had received letters from the Corps Headquarters Peshawar informing them that monitoring teams of the army would visit schools, colleges and health centres to ...

The Afghanistan National Cricket Team is looking to host more One Day International (ODI) matches in its home ground in India. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) officials are hope to schedule bilateral One-Day Internationals in India in a bid to arrange more fixtures against the full members. With the September 2017 cut-off fast approaching, Afghanistan need to play more ODIs ...

KABUL: The bordering regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan are still safe havens for many terrorist groups, the US Department of State said Monday. State Department spokesman John Kirby made the comments during the daily press briefing. He was responding to a question regarding the issue of Durand Line and status as the formal border line between the two countries which ...

BNP chief Akhtar Mengal, Asma Jahangir and SCBA Secretary Asad Manzoor participate in the seminar on Tuesday. — INP ISLAMABAD: Balochistan National Party (BNP) chief Akhtar Mengal has called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) exploitative if it does not equally benefit all the provinces, particularly Balochistan, which is the epicentre of the project. Mr Mengal was speaking at a seminar ...

Radio Pakistan, a state-run media on Tuesday falsely misused the remarks of the US Department of State Spokesperson John Kirby about the Durand line. Kirby was wrongly quoted by Radio Pakistan that the US government recognized the Durand Line as permanent border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The falsely remarks by Pakistani media comes at a time when the US and ...

KABUL: The US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in an unannounced visit to Kabul on Tuesday said that the US troops would continue support Afghan forces in anti-terrorism war and would finish the mission has been started. “We will continue to work hard together with Afghan forces to finish the mission we started,” Carter said in a press conference with ...

US: The former top American diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad has said Pakistan has been playing a dangerous game since the Taliban group was overthrown. In his testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Khalilzad said Pakistani proxies pose a severe threat to coalition and Afghan forces and civilians. “Indeed, Pakistani policy is the principal cause of the ongoing conflict in ...