The Afghan Taliban group has confirmed that a delegation consisting high level representatives of the group is currently visiting Pakistan to discuss the issues of mutual interest. A spokesman for the Taliban’s political office in Qatar Mohammad Naeem told “The esteemed leader of Islamic Emirate (the Taliban) has instructed the delegation to discuss issues regarding Afghan refugees, some recent problems ...

KARACHI: Bollywood director Kabir Khan, who was in Karachi to attend a marketing seminar, had to face shoe-wielding angry protesters at Karachi airport on his departure on Wednesday. The ‘Phantom’ director, who arrived at Karachi airport to leave for Lahore, was surrounded by protesters who not only shouted anti-India and pro-Pakistan slogans but also questioned Kabir Khan on why he ...

The Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan Syed Abrar Hussain was summoned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) over heavy artillery shelling by Pakistan in eastern Nangarhar province. According to a statement by MoFA, a formal protest was lodged regarding the shelling by handing over an official Memo of the Afghan government to the Pakistani Ambassador. The statement further ...

The Pakistani government officials have said Islamabad is not responsible alone to bring the Afghan Taliban to peace talks table, a day after President Ghani said Afghanistan will no longer expect cooperation from the country in the Afghan peace process. A spokesman for the Foreign office of Pakistan said Islamabad does not differentiate between the terror groups. “Pakistan condemns all ...

An Afghan Taliban delegation based in Qatar is in Karachi for direct talks with the Afghan government, BBC Urdu reported, citing diplomatic sources in Islamabad. The Foreign Office has denied knowledge of the delegation’s visit. Following a deadly insurgent attack targeting a security services office in the heart of Kabul ─ one of the deadliest attacks in the Afghan capital ...

HANOVER: President Barack Obama said Monday the US would send up to 250 more special forces and other military personnel to Syria to help rebels fight the militant Islamic State (IS) group. Obama was in Germany for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, and both later met the British, French and Italian leaders to discuss the battle against IS in its ...

The United States has reportedly denied to issue a visa to the First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum to visit New York and Washington to discuss the situation of the country with the American officials, it has been reported. The step was reportedly taken for Gen. Dostum’s alleged involvement in the mass killing of the Taliban insurgents in late ...

BADIN: Two youths travelling in a bus were arrested when the hand-carry ‘luggage’, wrapped in a cloth sheet, they possessed turned out to be the body of an eight-year-old girl. The suspects, Shahid and Ghulam Hussain aka Sawan, had boarded the bus coming from Chambarr town on Monday morning. A policeman travelling in the same bus noticed their suspicious movements ...

LAYYAH: The small, mud house of Umar Hayat in Chak 105-ML, Layyah, has been visited by hundreds of people — first jubilant relatives and now mourners — since Wednesday. As Hayat’s grandson, now named Abdullah, was born on Wednesday, his father Mohammad Sajjad ran to a nearby sweet shop in Chak 111-TDA in the evening, and bought five kilograms of ...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said Monday that the government of Afghanistan is not expecting Pakistan to bring Taliban group to negotiations table, urging Islamabad to take actions against the militant groups acting Afghanistan using the Pakistani soil. He was speaking during a gathering in Afghan Parliament following a deadly attack in Kabul last week which left over 400 people dead ...