The Pakistani citizens are holding the second worst passport in the world, joining the Afghan citizens in the latest index update by a London-based consulting firm which puts Afghan passport as the least powerful. According to the index update, Pakistan has been placed in the bottom of the update, securing 103rd place which is just one point above Afghanistan. The ...

Baacha Khan Trust Education Foundation Fellows Set up Khudai Khidmatgaari Camp at Baacha Khan School Mingora Swat For connecting with people at the grass roots level in continuation of Khudai Khidmatgaar Movement (KK Movement) initiated by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan aka Baacha Khan, the Fellows of Baacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation (BKTEF) set up a Khudai Khidmatgaari Camp from Feb ...

The first face-to-face talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban are to take place in early March in Islamabad. A statement released on Tuesday at the conclusion of the fourth meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group in Kabul said that the participants are asking groups of Taliban and other militant groups to introduce their representatives for participating in the ...

AFGHANISTAN: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani conferred the High State medal on General John Campbell the outgoing commander of the U.S. Forces and NATO-led Resolute Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan. The Office of the President in a statement said the First Grade High State medal of Storai was conferred on Gen. Campbell during a ceremony in ARG Presidential Palace. The statement ...

KANDAHAR CITY: Dried a and fresh fruits worth $68 million have been exported from southern Kandahar province during the current solar year, which ends on March 22, officials said on Friday, Eng. Abdul Baqi Beena, the Afghanistan Chambers of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) deputy head for Kandahar, said exports over the past 10 months included 2,000 tonnes of dried fruits, ...

AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan woman has killed a Taliban commander over home privacy breach in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan, security officials said Friday. Provincial police spokesman, Jawed Basharat, said the incident took place in Khwajah Bahauddin district of Baghlan province late on Thursday night. Meanwhile, provincial police chief, Gen. Ewaz Mohammad Nazeri, said the Taliban commander was killed after he ...

VIENNA – The European Union and United Nations on Tuesday criticised new police restrictions imposed on those travelling along the main migrant route through the Balkans, where hundreds of Afghans have been blocked from crossing into FYROM. Police chiefs from EU nations Austria, Croatia and Slovenia plus non-members Serbia and FYROM agreed last week to only allow in people “arriving ...

BRUSSELS: The European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia on Thursday, saying Britain, France and other EU governments should no longer sell weapons to a country accused of targeting civilians in Yemen. EU lawmakers, who voted overwhelmingly in favour of an embargo, said Britain had licensed more than $3bn of arms sales ...

AFGHANISTAN: The 5-year-old kid from Afghanistan, Murtaza Ahmadi, has received signed shirts from football star Lionel Messi, almost a month after charming the internet with a shirt prepared from plastic. According to UNICEF in Afghanistan, the football star helped make the dream of the kid come true. The picture of Murtaza went viral last month shortly after it was uploaded ...

Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies are waging a nasty war on U.S.-based scholars whose writings and public statements undermine cherished narratives promulgated by the army that has dominated Pakistan’s governance for most of the state’s existence. These agencies aim to intimidate, discredit, and silence us. Their tools are crude and include: outright threats; slanderous articles in Pakistani papers and other ...