MOSCOW: The Russian armed forces have not employed all their capability in Syria and may use “more military means” there if necessary, Russian news agencies quoted President Vladimir Putin as saying on Saturday. “We see how efficiently our pilots and intelligence agents coordinate their efforts with various kinds of forces – the army, navy and aviation, how they use the ...

SANYA: Spain’s Mireia Lalaguna Royo was named the winner of the Miss World 2015 competition on Saturday night in the southern Chinese island resort of Sanya, an event dogged by controversy over China’s refusal to allow Canada’s entrant to attend. Sofia Nikitchuk of Russia was the runner-up and Indonesia’s Maria Harfanti took third place in the final following a lengthy ...

The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a ceasefire and political settlement in Syria. The resolution envisions the formation of a unity government and calls for an immediate halt to any attacks on civilian targets. Earlier, agencies leaked the draft of the document agreed by the UNSC permanent members right ahead of the session. The four-page ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pashtun Times got the open letter sent to the Interior Minister today by a civil society activist, Ms. Marvi Sirmed. Today, the interior minister of Pakistan Ch. Nisar, announced in the parliament that there is no such charge against Mullah Abdul Aziz of the Red-Mosque if he would be arrested. The letter by Ms. Sirmed is a reminder to ...

ISLAMABAD: Worshipers at the infamous Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad still gather in their hundreds for Friday prayers, but the fiery sermons calling for Sharia law led by hardline cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz are now a thing of the past. The preacher, who once led a week-long armed conflict against Pakistan’s army and has repeatedly called for the ...

PESHAWAR: Awami National Party central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain has expressed his concern over the fact that banned outfits are still freely operating in Punjab though the National Action Plan (NAP) was announced after the Army Public School tragedy in Peshawar last year. Speaking at a function held in the memory of slain APS students in a school of ...

PESHAWAR: Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan, popularly known as Dr Khan Sahib, was assassinated in 1958 when he was serving the West Pakistan’s government as its first chief minister. However, he has not been declared a “state martyr”. “The historians in Pakistan must research this issue,” University of Peshawar Vice Chancellor Dr Rasul Jan said. He was speaking at an event of ...

US: Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump responded to Vladimir Putin’s comment, in which the Russian president called Trump “the absolute front-runner,” stating that it was a “great honor” to receive praise from a “highly respected” leader like Putin. “It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and ...

WASHINGTON:  Pakistan is not focusing on taking action against terror groups operating on its soil, that pose a threat to both India and Afghanistan, a top US official has said. “They (Pakistan) have focused more on the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan than they have on external terrorist actors that’s threatened their neighbours, whether Afghanistan or India,” Richard G Olson, Special US Representative ...

16th December: Will the Military Dons ever Jettison the Heinous Past Altogether Or will their strategic games continue indefinitely? Specially after scoring colossal policy failures both in Afghanistan and Kashmir, there ought to be a rethinking of the paradigm. A general feeler across Khyber Pashtunkhwa is that given the current direction and shape of things in the province and the federally ...