HONG KONG (THE PASHTUN TIMES): Pashtun students, studying in various universities of Hong Kong, seek a platform to address multifaceted problems that Pashtun students encounter in the pursuit of higher education. Arif Ali Khan, a PhD Scholar at City University Hong Kong, said that Pashtun students, for the first time ever, organized a get together in Hong Kong with a ...

KABUL – Chief Executive Officer Dr. Abdullah Abdullahon Monday asked the Taliban to stop using children as soldiers in the ongoing conflict in the country. The national unity government was pursuing a zero-tolerance policy on child soldiers, he told a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan. While asking the insurgent movement to join the ...

KABUL: Afghan athletes have bagged six gold medals in the finals of the taekwondo event at the 12th South Asian Games in India on Monday. As India finished second, the Afghans clinched six gold, one silver and one bronze medals in the event. The hosts won five gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Afghanistan’s Ahmad Ali Bakshi trounced Nepal’s ...

MOSCOW – Moscow does not want to join the US initiatives aimed at establishing stability and peace in Afghanistan. However, Russia is ready to set up a negotiation process independently. On Monday a representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Moscow does not want to participate in the Afghan peace process, where besides the US, China and ...

The family complained that the Pakistani media has ignored the success of the budding scientist Imran Khan QUETTA: As the story of one of the world’s most influential scientific discovery unfolds, it comes to the forefront that not one, but two Pakistanis were part of the various research teams which contributed to the discovery of gravitational waves. A young researcher ...

CHARSADDA: Bacha Khan University (BKU) in Charsadda, which was closed in the aftermath of a militant attack on Jan 20 which killed at least 21 students, reopened on Monday after it was given security clearance. Vice-chancellor Fazal Rahim Marwat received students as they entered the campus amid tight security. “We are satisfied with the security arrangements at the campus,” he ...

AFGHANISTAN: A patriot Afghan national who lives in a foreign country but still holds love for his country has spent $125,000 of his ‘hardly-earned’ money to build a library and conference hall for students of Medical Faculty in Nangarhar University. Professor Sharifullah while inaugurating the two-storey building, being constructed with his funds, urged students to concentrate on their studies. He ...

QUETTA: A teenage girl from Balochistan’s Killa Saifullah district, who led a protest against suspension of classes at her college owing to a shortage of female teachers, committed suicide on Friday after the college principal refused to send her examination form to the intermediate education board, family members claim. 17-year-old Saqiba Kakar, who was a second year intermediate student, and ...

KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday summoned Pakistan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan over the abduction of Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi in Islamabad. “Mindful of this that Mr. Wahidi is a prominent personality of Afghanistan and this incident took place in a peaceful area and capital of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan asks the Islamic Republic ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said he had warned the world regarding the threat posed by Daesh, a an extremist group that had been defeated in Afghanistan. Addressing participants the 52nd Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Afghan leaders accused the world of paying no attention to his warnings regarding the Islamic Sate (IS). He said many of Afghanistan’s ...