The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that the Pakistani leadership wanted recognition of Durand Line during his tenure in a bid to improve ties between the two nations. In his inaugural address at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, the former President recalled his visits to Pakistan while serving the nation as the Afghan President, saying “During my ...

PESHAWAR: There is an important development Pakistan is going to have its census after 17 years of delay. There is no difference of opinion that without Census data, socio-economic planning is not much better than guesswork. According to the constitution of Pakistan there should be census in Pakistan after 10 years which would allow government, businesses, and others to take ...

SHIKARPUR: Council of Islamic Ideology chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani said on Monday that Mumtaz Qadri’s act — though driven by religious sentiments — was illegal because he had taken the law into his own hands and he faced punishment because “no one is above the law”. Speaking to journalists here, Maulana Sherani said there was no need to legislate ...

WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Monday made public the final batch of emails taken from a private server which former secretary of state Hillary Clinton controversially used during her time in office. Clinton will hope the release will quiet the furore over her decision to spurn a government email account, but federal investigators are still probing whether her home-brew ...

A new book authored by the wife a former operative of Pakistan’s spy agency has once again made the claim that Nawaz Sharif received money from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The book, Khalid Khawaja: Shaheed-i-Aman, is authored by Shamama Khalid, the wife of former ISI operative Khalid Khawaja. “Chief of PML-N Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif received funding from Osama ...

The filmmaker won for her documentary A Girl in the River, which sheds light on honour killing in Pakistan Just minutes ago Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy made history as the only Pakistani to win two Oscar awards. Sharmeen was awarded the Oscar in the category Best Documentary – Short Subject for her documentary A Girl in the River, which follows the ...

RAWALPINDI: Mumtaz Qadri, an Elite Force commando convicted of killing former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, was executed at the Adiala Jail at around 4.30am on Monday, police said. Qadri shot Taseer 28 times in broad daylight in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market on January 4, 2011. He was sentenced to death for assassinating Taseer on Oct 1 the same year.   Qadri ...

PESHAWAR: Hamid Shah, a student of grade 6 in a private school in Peshawar, has lately been distracted. He is present in the class but not focused on his studies. That worries his teacher because Shah is among the top students of the class. “Since the attacks on education institutions, we have noticed a visible change not only in his ...

AFGHANISTAN: During the regime of Taliban, Islamabad tried to make the over 2,000-kilometre Durand Line a permanent border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a former diplomat of Taliban reveals. Mullah Abdul Salam Zaif who was ambassador of Taliban to Islamabad says the country tried three times to formalize the border but it repeatedly received a negative response. According to Mullah Zaif, ...

KABUL – A senior U.N. official has urged Pakistan to resolve the status of more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan whose registration cards have expired or who remain unregistered. While Europe has grappled with the exodus of people from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan hosts the world’s largest long-term refugee population, according to the United Nations refugee ...