KABUL: Former President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday met with Chief of the Feroz Koh Foundation (Turquoise Mountain). Head of the Feroz Koh Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture, Waheed Khalili and teachers of the institute were also present on the occasion. Hamid Karzai commended the institute for creating exquisite pieces of arts. He also thanked Britain’s Prince Charles for establishment ...

VIENNA: Austria on Wednesday moved to further tighten migrants’ access to the country by placing tough new restrictions on asylum eligibility and making it easier to reject asylum seekers at the border. As of mid-May, the government will only accept cases of refugees facing threats to their safety in a neighbouring transit country or whose relatives are already in Austria. ...

Sikh children worship at the historical Bhai Beba Singh temple at Hashtnagri, Peshawar, on Wednesday.    PESHAWAR: Almost three hundred years old Sikh temple located in Jogiwara Street of Hashtnagri, an ancient residential area of Peshawar city, was reopened for worship on Wednesday. The temple was reopened during a ceremony wherein Evacuee Trust Property Board Chairman Siddique-ul-Farooq was chief guest. ...

Afghanistan has opposed deportation of Afghan asylum seekers and refugees in large number from Europe. “For now the Afghan Government is opposite [sic] for the forcible deportation because the situation is not good in Afghanistan,” said Hafiz Ahmad Miakhel, media advisor to the ministry. “Most of the Afghans leave the country because of the insecurity, some districts are under the ...

Court says the plea was filed on ‘unreasonable’ grounds. ISLAMABAD: A special court of custom, excise and taxation on Wednesday refused to register a money laundering case against model Ayyan Ali. Giving decision on an application filed by customs officials, the court said the plea was filed on ‘unreasonable’ grounds. Special judge of custom court Rana Aftab after hearing the ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has withdrawn the condition of securing a no-objection certificate from it for foreign tourists to visit Malakand division comprising seven districts. The condition was imposed in 2010 following the military operation against militants in Swat. The authorities toughened the process of the NOC issuance to foreigners for Malakand tour in the wake of the 2011 ...

DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two women and a man were shot dead in what police claimed to be cases of honour killing on Wednesday. The murders were carried out in two unrelated incidents in Nasirabad and Kachhi districts of Balochistan. In the first incident, the suspect, Abdul Rasheed, shot dead his wife, Shehnaz Bibi, near Uch area of Dera Murad Jamali ...

Daniel Pipes, the great American scholar and expert on the Middle East, Islam, and more recently said in a Times of India interview that, “there’s a tendency in west Asia to blame western powers for whatever happens – be it as large as Islamic State or as small as a traffic jam.”  Having spent years in west Asia’s great cities ...

AFGHANISTAN: The acting Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai has said that the foreign insurgents disguised as the Taliban militants are fighting the Afghan forces. In his trip to the southern provinces, Stanikzai stopped in the restive Helmand province to review the security situation of this province. He said the ongoing violence in Afghanistan is not having internal links but is ...

A Saudi billionaire dubbed as ‘Saudi playboy’ has taken London by storm with his incredible lifestyle including the fleet of golden cars. A UK-based tabloid has featured the luxurious lifestyle of the billionaire in a report which has been released after the super-rich Saudi has caused quite a stir in west London in recent days. According to the report by ...