PESHAWAR: Afghan ambassador Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal has said the atmosphere of mistrust and fears has marred the relations between his country and Pakistan and therefore, concrete measures should be taken to build mutual trust. “There is no dispute between the two countries except distrust. Both the countries should take serious steps for building trust,” he said during a brief chat ...

Book Review: Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan frontier, by Aisha Ahmad & Roger Boase, London: Saqi Books, 2003, 368pp. Book contents include Preface, List of Plates, Folkloristic Analysis, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index of Tale Types & Folk Motifs.  Commentary by Angelina Merisi The long-standing indigenous tradition of storytelling, folktales, fables and verse narratives  has constituted a means of  didactic communication, underpinning ...

KABUL: US Army General John W. “Mick” Nicholson on Wednesday took command of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, warning Taliban militants to renounce insurgency. The change of command ceremony took place at the NATO’s Resolute Support Mission headquarters in Kabul where Gen. Nicholson replaced outgoing US and NATO forces commander Gen. John Campbell. Top military and civil leaders ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah promised that the government will not comprise on women’s rights as efforts are underway to revive peace talks with the anti-government armed militant groups. In his speech during an event to mark the International Women’s Day, Abdullah said as the government is preparing for peace there will not be any compromise on women’s ...

In early days of Islam Madrassa was considered a source of both Islamic and secular knowledge. In the early madrassa system clerics did not teach lonely those subjects which were related to Islam like Tafseer (Interpretation of Holy Quran), Hadith (thousands of sayings of Prophet Muhammad), Fiqh (Islamic Law), but also taught subjects like English, astronomy, architecture, physics, literature, and ...

The beheading of a child by an Uzbek woman in Russia sent shockwaves globally after reports along with the disturbing footage of the woman appeared in the media showing her carrying the severed head of the child. Soon after her arrest by Russian police, the woman appeared in Moscow court, making a distressing comment to media on the way to ...

Secretary of State John Kerry, Pakistan Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz, center, and others, participate in the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue meeting at the State Department in Washington. ─ AP WASHINGTON: US and Pakistani officials are still deliberating on the contents of a joint statement that was supposed to be issued after the sixth meeting of their strategic dialogue on Monday ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal has said the Afghan Taliban support and want peace, expressing optimisms that the group will likely participate in peace negotiations with the Afghan government in the near future. Citing persistent issues the Afghan peace process is facing, Zakhilwal said “I am confident we will soon be talking to the Taliban and ...

WASHINGTON: Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton moved closer to winning their parties’ nominations with a series of victories in the Super Tuesday elections, the biggest day of the primary campaign. Clinton and Trump each won seven of 11 state races as they distanced themselves from party rivals and looked ahead to a November presidential election showdown. Clinton’s opponent, ...

KABUL – Afghanistan Ministry of Commerce and Industries Spokesman welcomed India’s $156m-investment decision to develop Chabahar and regarded it as profitable for India. Afghanistan welcomes India’s decision to invest in Chabahar Mosafer Ghughandi told IRNA on Sunday that undoubtedly Afghanistan will also take advantage of India’s investment in Chabahar. Ghughandi said that increasing the capacity of loading and unloading in ...