KABUL: A dissident Taliban group on Thursday opposed the appointment of MullahHaibatullah Akhundzada as the movement’s new leader. Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhar Mansour was killed in a drone strike raid on his car in Dalbandin area of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province five days ago. Pakistan confirmed the death of Mansour on Thursday, after five days, and the Taliban confirmed ...

One of the least examined problems of our Islamic society is sex, or the lack of it.  As Qandeel puts it: “We keep our mouths shut; we’re good at pretense, all for the sake of social propriety”. Without open discussion or education, it is expected to take care of itself; it is ‘natural’, so why the need to speak about ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged the Afghan government to halt further execution of the prisoners charged with the terror offences. In an online statement issued following the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, Karzai has said ‘brotherhood’ and ‘unity’ are the only way to achieve peace in the country. The statement by Karzai further ...

MOSCOW: Russia have included Maria Sharapova in their Olympic tennis team despite the star player being suspended over a positive test for the banned drug meldonium, the country’s tennis federation said on Thursday. “By the end of the first week of Roland Garros, the question of Sharapova’s participation at the Olympic Games should be resolved,” Shamil Tarpischev, the head of ...

US Senator Dana Rohrabacher has said Pakistan is a reliable partner fir terrorists and not the United States, warning that the provision of millions in aid to Pakistani government in fight against terrorism would have a reverse outcome. The US Senator was speaking to Voice of America’s Afghanistan during an exclusive interview. Senator Rohrabacher further added that Islamabad considers the ...

According to an AP count: Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president. ─AP   WASHINGTON: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, citing its own delegate count. Trump was put over the top in ...

KABUL: The Russian Foreign Ministry has said the loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are as active as ever in Afghanistan. There are concerns that the loyalists of the group will attempt to expand activities and foothold across Afghanistan and into the Central Asia. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters “The ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Ministry of Interior has said the Taliban group militants are in a critical condition following the death of their leader in Pakistan. Sediq Sediqi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, told reporters in Kabul that the intelligence findings of the ministry shows the militants are suffering in the battlefield following the death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. He said ...

Awami National Party provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak. BUNER: The provincial government has been accused of being hand in glove in various cases of corruption and land grabbing. The allegations were levelled by Awami National Party provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak. The ANP leader was addressing a rally in Totalai, Buner on Wednesday. “The incumbent government has lost the ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan government has called on the Taliban group to renounce violence or face the same fate as their leaders. The statement by the Afghan government was given shortly after the group announced the successor of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a US drone strike in Pakistan. The government said ‘Taliban groups have yet another opportunity to end and renounce ...