A former top American defense official has said the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan is enabled by the group’s safe havens situated in the neighboring Pakistan besides an internecine struggle among different Taliban factions playing a role in the growing violence. “At the hands of the Taliban. This offensive is enabled by sanctuaries in Pakistan. And it has also been enabled ...

It was in 2010 that US government released a report about mineral resources of Afghanistan. The findings were a combined research by US geological society and USAID. According to report, Afghanistan has mineral resources worth 1 trillion dollars while the Afghan government at that time claimed it to be of no less than 3 trillion dollars. It was such a ...

In early December, the first shipment of uranium from Cameco, based in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, arrived in India. Part of a $350 million, five-year contract signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Canada in April, it came with strong symbolic resonance of a relationship that has new energy and could gather more momentum in 2016 with a ...

Anything a religious leader says in the name of Islam against a woman will sell like peanuts in winters So one fine morning you log on to Facebook and find an ad with a lady in red, and people reacting to it. Well that’s not the end of the story; it becomes the hottest topic for debate, like always, for ...

KABUL: The Afghan and Pakistani officials have agreed to pursue talks with the Taliban groups willing to join peace process, the sources said Sunday. The agreement along with other measures to improve the bilateral relations between the two nations was reached during the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif’s visit to Kabul. The Presidential Palace in a statement said ...

DUBAI: Pakistan’s leg-spinner Yasir Shah was on Sunday provisionally suspended for failing a dope test by the International Cricket Council (ICC). “Shah has been charged with an anti-doping rule violation on a sample he provided in an in-competition test,” an ICC statement announced. “The test, conducted on 13 November 2015, was found to contain the presence of chlortalidone, a Prohibited ...

ISLAMABAD: Images of burned villages and charred bodies, clips of people screaming for help: with a wall of silence hindering traditional media, insurgents are using social networks to present a narrative of violent abuses by security forces in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province. A simple search for “Awaran Operation” on Twitter is enough to reveal dozens of photographs said to be from ...

WASHINGTON – The United States has been pursuing a wrong-headed policy in Afghanistan and the Middle East for several years, an American political analyst and activist said. Mark Weber, the director of the Institute for Historical Review, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on a senior Democratic lawmaker’s proposal that about 10,000 US troops should ...

“SHE is no more,” said my daughter over the phone, giving us the tragic news of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. We were at a recording at Dawn studios. The news was shattering. My worst fears that she may not survive this time had come true. By that time, she had matured into a confident leader. She was clear that Taliban-style terrorism ...

The Afghanistan national football team defeated Bhutan 3-0 in their second match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship this evening. Played in Trivandrum International Stadium, the formation of the Afghan team was based on 4-2-3-1, which included four players in defense line, 2 players in defensive halfback, 3 players in the middle line and 1 player in the offensive ...