IN BERLIN they speak of “Plan B”; in Brussels the fear is of the U-turn. Whatever the term, the prediction is the same: that Angela Merkel is on the brink of reversing the generous policy towards asylum-seekers that saw more than a million of them reach Germany last year. For now, Mrs Merkel sticks to her well-worn line: Wir schaffen ...

My friend was once asked by a Baloch friend of his, “We know why we are killed, but why Pushtoons are being killed?” Can the state provide answer to this question? Franz Kafka was a brilliant author. His novel, The Trial, traces the life of a person who has been caught in a huge, opaque, tightly sealed bureaucratic machinery of ...

MELBOURNE: Angelique Kerber became the first German to win a grand slam title since her childhood idol Steffi Graf in 1999 when she upset world number one Serena Williams 6-4 3-6 6-4 to clinch the Australian Open on Saturday. The 34-year-old American had been seeking her seventh Melbourne Park title and 22nd overall, which would have moved her into a ...

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Thousands of Afghan refugees have been recruited by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to fight alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, it has been reported. According to reports, some of the refugees have been deployed to Syria after they were recruited through coercion. Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said “Iran has not ...

Some 18 months after the military launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb to flush out militants from the North Waziristan region, terror strikes continue to afflict the country. DW examines the reasons behind this. In June 2014, Pakistan’s largest international airport in the southern city of Karachi became the target of a terrorist attack carried out by various outlawed outfits. That assault is ...

AFGHANISTAN: Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) in its new report to the United States Congress has written that Afghanistan proved even more dangerous than it was a year ago. The report further states that a year after the Coalition handed responsibility for Afghan security to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), American and British forces were ...

AFGHANISTAN: The delegation of National Youth Organization (NYO) visited Jalalabad to commemorate the 28th death anniversary of Bacha Khan organised by the Government of Nangrahar Province. The Pashtun youths from Khyber-Pashtunkhwa were warmly welcomed by the Government of Afghanistan and were also conveyed the message by Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. In the event, the followers of Bacha Khan from Afghanistan ...

The third round of quadrilateral meeting on Afghan peace process will be held on 6th February in the capital city of Pakistan, the officials said Thursday. A spokesman for Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry Qazi Khalilullah told reporters that representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan, United States and China will meet next to discuss the Afghan peace process. Khalilullah further added that the meeting ...

PAKISTAN: The head of a powerful religious body said on Thursday he is willing to review Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws that critics say are regularly misused and have led to the deaths of hundreds, to decide if they are Islamic. Pakistan’s religious and political elites almost universally keep clear of debating blasphemy laws in a country where criticism of Islam is a highly sensitive subject. Two ...