WASHINGTON: The United States on Sunday warned the Taliban to either join the peace process or face the onslaught of American and Afghan forces.  “The Taliban have a choice:  to join good-faith negotiations for peace, or continue to fight a war in which they are killing their fellow Afghans and destroying their country,” a State Department spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News.  “If they choose ...

The Afghan-born Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Siyar Bahadurzada returned to UFC with a victory over American UFC fighter Brandon Thatch during UFC 196. Held at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Bahadurzada submitted the Elevation Fight Team standout with a third-round arm-triangle choke. Bahadurzada ended the fight in his favour during the last seconds of the third ...

The greater Punjab is not acceptable to small nations anymore. Pakistan in its present state is an imbalance state numerically, politically and economically Pakistan minus Punjab, there is no Pakistan. But Pakistan with Punjab is MAHA Punjab. This equation may sound silly to some readers and the others may ignore it to be the simplification of the grievous situation, prevailing ...

AFGHANISTAN: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani called on Taliban militants group to choose between war and peace, insisting that the group is facing a major test to choose between the country, nation and militancy. In his speech during the inauguration of the 6th working year of the Afghan parliament, President Ghani said the ongoing violence in the country is not having ...

BERLIN – Greece needs to deliver quickly on its promise to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees and the European Union should help Athens with this task, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a media interview published on Saturday. Austria, one of the last stepping stones to Germany for hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants, recently imposed border restrictions, setting ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the ongoing talks by the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) were Afghanistan’s only hope for peace. In interview with India’s The Hindu newspaper, Karzai said there is no other hope for peace despite the fact the talks were being held in Pakistan. “We have no other hope for peace. Which is what forces ...

WASHINGTON:  A top Republican Senator has asked his colleagues in the Senate to join him in opposing the sale of eight nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, saying it was “past time” to demand accountability from the country whose “coziness” with terrorists has harmed the US military. “Selling military hardware to Pakistan – with a generous subsidy from American taxpayers ...

TALIBAN: The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan rejected to sit-in for direct peace talks with the Afghan government in the framework of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG). According to a statement released by the group, the decision to refrain from direct negotiations was taken due to deployment of troops by US to Afghanistan, ongoing airstrikes, and expansion of military operations ...

GENEVA – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) issued Friday a six-point plan to guide EU member states in solving the refugee crisis which is showing no signs of abating. “We are running out of time, and strong leadership and vision are urgently needed from European leaders to deal with what is, in my view, a situation that can still be ...

WASHINGTON: Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump on Thursday favored American troops staying in Afghanistan because its neighbor Pakistan has nuclear weapons, which needs to be secured.  “I think you have to stay in Afghanistan for a while, because of the fact that you’re right next to Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons, and we have to protect that. Nuclear weapons change the ...