ROME: Improved sea conditions are permitting the Italian navy to resume a complex operation to recover a sunken fishing boat with the bodies of hundreds of migrants inside. Navy vessels are set to head Wednesday to the site of the April 2015 shipwreck, in which the immense loss of life spurred Europe to step up patrols of the Mediterranean, where ...

KABUL: Finland and Afghanistan are working on a draft agreement on the future of Afghan asylum seekers in the North European country, a top official announced on Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Permanent Secretary to Finland’s Ministry of Interior Päivi Nerg said her country was dealing with the mass immigration issue in two ways. One way ...

BANNU: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the establishment of an international airport in Bannu, alongside other development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Tuesday. “We will build an international airport in Bannu,” the premier told a cheering crowd. “Repeat with me: This is ‘Naya Pakistan’,” he hit out at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) with their oft-repeated slogan. In an address ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will acquire F-16s from elsewhere if the United States (US) does not arrange funding for the sale, Sartaj Aziz, the prime minister’s adviser on foreign affairs, cautioned the US as both countries lock horns over the purchase of the fighter jets. Pakistan had earlier reached an understanding with the US for buying eight F-16 planes. Under the deal, ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on Taliban to renounce violence and join hands with the other countrymen in rebuilding the country if ‘they consider themselves sons of Afghanistan’. In a statement released following a series of deadly attacks across the country since the group announced its spring offensive, Karzai said the war has been imposed on the ...

The United States has reportedly told Pakistan to fund over $700 million for the purchase of F-16 fighter jets itself, days after the US congress blocked the funds to purchase the jets for Pakistan. US State Department spokesman John Kirby has said the congressional opposition meant funds from the US government’s Foreign Military Financing allocation could not be used to ...

“This is the most tragic example of a shameful Government policy,” Lord Ashdown, who champions the cause of the translators, told media.” Tragedy of betrayed Afghan hero: Translator facing deportation despite helping the British Army kills himself after being told he does not qualify for asylum UNITED KINGDOM: An Afghan asylum seeker has reportedly committed suicide in United Kingdom after ...

AFGHANISTAN: The government of India has increased formalities for the issuance of visas for the Afghan nationals amid concerns that the Afghan passports have been seen in possession of some of the citizens of neighboring countries of Afghanistan. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Salahuddin Rabbani told lawmakers in the Upper House of the Parliament, Meshrano Jirga, the issue has became ...

The decision by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to live-tweet the military operation that culminated in the death of Osama bin Laden “as if it were happening today” has been criticized by online users. The criticisms followed after CIA shared details of the mission and intelligence that led to America’s most wanted man being found, with majority of the audience reacting ...

This file photograph taken on May 2, 2011, shows the hideout of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after he was killed by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad. —AFP/File ISLAMABAD: Five years ago, elite United States forces shot and killed Osama bin Laden, ending a manhunt that began in earnest after his Al Qaeda operatives hijacked ...