FRANCE: A demonstration was organized by a topless activist in Paris today to protest against the execution of hundreds of people in Iran every year. The activist from international women’s rights group – Femen staged the demonstration as the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is in Paris to sign off new business deals between the two countries. With an Iranian flag ...

Kohli fan’s father feels sorry for son who will not have access to TV in jail to watch cricketer batting in T20s. OKARA: The whole town of 54/2L knew that Umar Daraz was an ardent fan of Indian master blaster Virat Kohli. His favourite batsman’s outclass performance in the recent series in Australia excited him so much that he hoisted ...

Pakistan is fighting a war against terrorism without an ideology and that is the reason behind why Pakistan has still not been able to define its goals and those of its fight It is the first time that an Islamic, ideological state — Pakistan — is being confronted with an armed group whose ideology is based on the state religion, ...

AFGHANISTAN: The loyalists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) which is locally known by its Arabic name Daesh launched a radio in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan about three months before . They would broadcast Pashto language programs through the radio named ‘Khilafat Ghag Radio’ or ‘Voice of the Caliphate’.  But the group has now begun its ...

PESHAWAR: Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehrik (PUT) hold a grand Qabayalee Jirga in Peshawar consisting FATA parliamentarians, FATA political alliance, Lawyers, students, women and tribal elders warmly participated in the Jirga. The participants of Jirga supported the merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and passes the following resolutions: ONE: The Jirga decide to merge FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and have rejects the ...

AFGHANISTAN: Top U.S. military commanders, who only a few months ago were planning to pull the last American troops out of Afghanistan by year’s end, are now quietly talking about an American commitment that could keep thousands of troops in the country for decades, The Washington Post reports. The news agency citing senior military officials say that the shift in ...

ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Shah on Tuesday expressed concern over what he called ‘non-implementation’ of the National Action Plan. Talking to reporters in his chamber at the parliament house, he called for a judicial probe into terrorist attacks in Peshawar’s Army Public School and Bacha Khan University in Charsadda. He said people wanted ...

PESHAWAR: A Pakhtun nationalist party has urged Islamabad to pave the ground for a joint offensive with Kabul against terrorists. Awami National Party (ANP) general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain called terrorists the common enemy of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Speaking to reporters in the Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, he stressed the need for a joint operation to ...

AFGHANISTAN: The social media has been rife with reports and pictures of a kid wearing a plastic with the football star Lionel Messi’s name written on it. The photographs of the kid hailing from southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan went viral on social media today with earlier speculations suggesting that the kid is an Iraqi Kurd. He has been identified ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan government on Monday said peace talks will only take place with the Taliban groups renouncing violence as efforts are underway to revive the stalled peace process amid rampant Taliban-led insurgency. Deputy presidential spokesman Syed Zafar Hashemi told reporters that trilateral and quadrilateral meetings between Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and United States will continue as part of efforts for ...