INDIA: India defeated the Afghan national football team during the final match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship final. Both Afghanistan and India ended the first half of the match with no goals scored but the Afghan player zubair Amiri hits first goal for Afghanistan during 70th minute of the game. However, the Indian player Jeje managed to level ...

BARCELONA: Barcelona was held to 0-0 at Espanyol to cede the provisional lead of the Spanish league to Atletico Madrid on Saturday, after Diego Simeone’s side got some late heroics from substitute Thomas Partey for the second time in four days. Partey went on in the 73rd minute with Atletico struggling to find the net at home against Levante after ...

KARAK: At least 10 passengers including four women were killed and six others injured when a gas cylinder explosion occurred inside a van on Indus Highway in Karak district on Sunday. According to details shared by Karak DPO Muhammad Javed Khan, the passenger van heading towards Dera Ismail Khan from Peshawar suddenly caught fire after a huge cylinder blast on ...

TEHRAN: Angry protesters have set fire to the Saudi Arabia embassy in Tehran and the country’s consulate in Mashad after the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh al-Nimr. Crowds of protesters first stormed and ransacked Saudi’s embassy and Consulate. Then they damaged property there after which they threw Molotov cocktail and set on fire both the diplomatic offices. Photos ...

KABUL – President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday said that international meetings next month to lay the groundwork for a possible resumption of peace talks with the Taliban had to seek an approach to the fractured insurgent movement that ensured a rejection of terrorism. Prospects of success have been clouded by bloody infighting in the Taliban over the leadership succession which ...

KABUL: The High Peace Council (HPC) on Saturday hoped the presence of the United States and China in the Afghan peace talks would yield result and make Pakistan to meet its pledges. The body’s acting chairman, Abdul Hakim Mujahid, said the second phase of peace talks would be different from the first round held in July last year, adding that ...

AFGHANISTAN: In a statement to the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Shireen M. Mazari, spokesperson for the chairman of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan, said on Saturday that misunderstandings had arisen out of a remark about the treatment of an Afghan Taliban leader at the Shaukat Khanum cancer hospital in Lahore. This came after media reports emerged Saturday that Khan reportedly confirmed ...

AFGHANISTAN: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday appealed to the public to refrain from shooting in the air in the event of the Afghan national football team winning its match against India on Sunday. Afghanistan is scheduled to take on India in the finals of the South Asian Football Federation ( SAFF) championship cup in India on Friday evening. ...

The Afghanistan Football coach Petar Segrt has said the final match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship final between Afghanistan and India ‘will be a new day for both teams’, insisting that we have to win it for the people of Afghanistan. Segrt further added that Afghanistan will not take the Indian team lightly, admitting that “The Indian Team ...

ISLAMABAD: Former Chief Minister of Balochistan Abdul Malik Baloch revealed in an interview with Geo News that he met Brahumdagh Bugti several times in Geneva. Speaking to Geo News’ program Jirga’s host Saleem Safi, Dr. Malik Baloch said that the Army and the prime minister were both on board regarding his meeting with Brahumdagh Bugti in Geneva. He added that ...