WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Wednesday told Congress it was conducting a review of assistance to Pakistan to ensure it was aligned with the level of cooperation it achieved in disrupting the Taliban and the Haqqani network. “Before we move forward with future military financing for Pakistan, the US will take into account Pakistan’s efforts to address these central concerns,” acting assistant secretary for South ...

KABUL: Save the Children, an organization active in protecting children urged the Afghan government to properly enforce its corporal punishment ban following reports that a high school student died after facing violence at school. The incident took place in the northern Afghan province of Balk three days ago. According to a statement “This is a tragic, heartbreaking situation in which ...

KABUL: A coordinated attack on Shamshad TV, a private channel, has ended but Afghan forces are still searching the building for attackers. TV officials said two attackers, wearing police uniforms, were gunned down by security forces. Staff-members of the TV station suffered no casualties. However, eyewitnesses said two people were evacuated to hospital from the TV station. An worker of ...

KABUL: Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani says the Afghan national shall never surrender before the use of force as he strongly condemned the suicide attack targeting the Independent Local Governance staff in Kabul. The office of the president, ARG Palace, said President Ghani participated in the funeral of the deceased staff of the directorate who lost their lives in the ...

This file photo taken on May 11, 2017 shows Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal speaking during a press conference in Jeddah. ─ AFP Saudi Arabia arrested 11 princes, including a prominent billionaire, and dozens of current and former ministers, reports said, in a sweeping crackdown as the kingdom’s young crown prince consolidates power. Separately, the head of the Saudi National ...

Not many people know that the parents of Bollywood’s most beautiful star had moved from Swabi to Mumbai in search of a better life We all know about the many male Bollywood legends who come from Peshawar. But very few people would have heard that the Indian film industry’s most beautiful heroin also had a connection with the old Peshawar ...

Europe is recognised to be the birth place of the modern national state. The processes of ethnic consolidation and socio political development triggered by industrial revolution and followed by democratic transformation between 15th and 19th centuries were supposed to have shaped the phenomenon. In some cases there were relatively more united national entities such as Dutch and Portuguese nations that gave birth to states ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign minister Khawaja Asif once again revealed Islamabad’s opposition towards the new US strategy for South Asia, claiming that the policy has been influenced by the defeated US generals. Asif said Wednesday that the new US policy was ineffective because it was influenced by the generals who suffered defeat in Afghanistan. “The Americans have devised a framework for ...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Saadabad Palace.─AP Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iran’s leadership on Wednesday in Tehran as the two Damascus allies push a Syria peace plan and the Kremlin offers its backing for a landmark nuclear deal facing US opposition. Putin ─ on his first visit to ...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan is trying to reacquire an unspecified number of helicopters from the United States for anti-narcotics operations after returning nine Huey II helicopters it had acquired in 2002, diplomatic sources said on Monday. Earlier in the day, Pakistan returned five of the nine helicopters it had received almost 15 years ago. The ministry of interior, which was using the ...