Is Pakistan still busy in ‘Hide and Seek’? In a reaction to President Ashraf Ghani’s statements on the lack of Pakistan’s interest in fight against terrorism, Islamabad has apparently made efforts to pretend the reality is not what Afghanistan says. President Ghani in an addressing to the NATO summit in the capital of Poland had said that his country was ...

PESHAWAR: The medical business in Peshawar city of Pakistan has suffered significantly following the Torkham incident last month which led to the decreased movement of Afghans to the country who were mainly traveling for medical care. According to reports, half of patients at the private hospitals in Peshawar were the Afghans. Neurosurgeon Dr Tariq Khan, who is head of the ...

Sunny Leone wants to make most of the opportunity coming her way with no “fear” of not getting any work in the future. Actress Sunny Leone says being a part of films is not going to be forever for her. The adult film star made her comeback to India with popular reality show Bigg Boss season five in 2011 followed by ...

DHAKA: Bangladesh government has ordered Islamic television station Peace TV to stop broadcasting and has told schools to report any missing students. The station is run by Indian doctor-turned-preacher Zakir Naik, the founder and president of Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation, and its programmes are aired from Dubai. A Bangladesh cabinet committee decided to ban Peace TV from the country, information ...

“Don’t murder, put in the cradle”, this is how Edhi  became father to the disowned. Not only Muslims but the people from all over the world, no matter of what religion, creed or sect they belong to, are deeply grieved, upset and sad at the sorrowful demise of the philanthropist Abdus Satar Edhi. He was a true humanist, a Muslim ...

An Afghan expert on Saturday slammed protests by Pakistanis against Mahmoud Khan Achakzai’s recent remarks regarding Pakhtunkhwa, saying that Pakistan has no right to forcefully change Afghan nationality through occupation. According to reports, Pakistan Muslim League-Q’s senior leader and former deputy prime minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and other Pak-loyalty figures came hard on Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mahmoud Khan ...

WARSAW (POLAND): NATO on Saturday decided to sustain its Resolute Support (RS) Mission beyond 2016 in Afghanistan and pledged to continue funding Afghan National Security forces through 2020. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters here that NATO allies had promised the United States they would help fund Afghan security forces to the tune of around $1 billion annually over the next three years. ...

LONDON: Pakistan’s teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said she had nominated the country’s celebrated humanitarian and philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi for Nobel Peace Prize, BBC Urdu reported on Saturday. “As a Nobel Peace Prize winner, I hold the right to nominate people for the prize and I have nominated Abdul Sattar Edhi,” said Malala. Edhi, who breathed his last on ...

POLAND: The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah talked about the terrorists’ sanctuaries in the neighborhood during his speech at the NATO Warsaw summit in Poland. CEO Abdullah was apparently pointing towards the safe havens used by the Taliban group and Haqqani terrorist network leadership councils in Pakistan. “Looking back at recent history, some of us failed to grasp, the ...

Ghani says Pakistan’s dangerous distinction between good and bad terrorists is being maintained in practice. ─Afghan President’s website KARACHI: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said the peace initiatives taken by Afghanistan with Pakistan are not successful as Pakistan differentiates between good and bad terrorists “in practice”. “Our regional initiatives with neighbours are beginning to yield significant cooperative dividends. However, ...